Ice House Approximately 150 Metres to South West of Wortley Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1986. Ice house.

Ice House Approximately 150 Metres to South West of Wortley Hall

WRENN ID
inner-trefoil-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Barnsley
Constituency
Penistone and Stocksbridge MP: Dr Marie Tidball (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 December 1986
Type
Ice house
OS grid reference
SK 311 993
Coordinates
53.48991, -1.53173
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The ice house, located approximately 150 metres to the south-west of Wortley Hall, dates from the early to mid-19th century and was built for the Wortley Hall estate. It is constructed of red brick and ashlar sandstone, featuring an earth-covered mound set in a bank to the north-east of an adjacent fish pond. The structure is topped by a square brick upstand with heavy coping that has hinge-pins for hatches, which have since been removed. The top of the ice house has a rebated round hole. To the south, there is an ashlar-coped feeder channel that allows ice to be raked off the fish pond into the side of the subterranean structure, which was full of debris at the time of the last survey. This ice house is an unusual and well-preserved example from its period.

Local climate

Ice House Approximately 150 Metres to South West of Wortley Hall receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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