Ice House at the Cave is a Grade II listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1985. Ice house.
Ice House at the Cave
- WRENN ID
- last-doorway-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Derbyshire Dales
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1985
- Type
- Ice house
- Address
- Ice House at the Cave, Off Dale Brook, Sudbury
- OS grid reference
- SK 166 339
- Coordinates
- 52.90241, -1.75346
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ice House at The Cave is an early 19th-century structure associated with Sudbury Hall. It is built from red brick and is circular in shape, sunk into the ground with a domed brick top that is covered with grass. The entrance features a short tunnel that leads into a vaulted passage.
Local climate
Ice House at the Cave receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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