The Ice House at Harewood Park is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1999. A C18 Icehouse.

The Ice House at Harewood Park

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leeds
Constituency
Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1999
Type
Icehouse
OS grid reference
SE 310 443
Coordinates
53.89481, -1.52895
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Ice House at Harewood Park is an icehouse built around 1760, likely designed by John Carr of York for Edwin Lascelles. It is constructed of ashlar sandstone with a brick lining. The structure features a circular stone wall topped with ashlar coping and a domed roof. The entrance passage is made of brick and has a rounded roof. Inside, there is a deep, brick-lined cylindrical ice chamber with an elliptical arched doorway. The short entrance passage has brick walls and a barrel vault, leading to a round arched doorway with a plank door. The icehouse was restored in the late 20th century.

Local climate

The Ice House at Harewood Park receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% 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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