Ice House is a Grade II listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1983. A C18 Ice house.
Ice House
- WRENN ID
- sunken-merlon-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Derbyshire Dales
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1983
- Type
- Ice house
- Address
- Ice House, Main Street, Hopton
- OS grid reference
- SK 257 533
- Coordinates
- 53.07685, -1.61729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ice house at Hopton Hall dates from the late 18th century and is constructed of gritstone. It has a circular shape with a domed roof and features a short access passage located halfway up. The overall depth of the ice house is 7.5 meters. Currently, it is in poor condition, with the dome exposed and the access passage partially collapsed.
Local climate
Ice House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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