Ice House 250 Metres North Of Himley Hall

The ice house located 250 metres north of Himley Hall is an early 19th-century structure. It is built from coursed squared red sandstone blocks and features flat coping stones on the walls that flank the entrance, which is now covered by an overgrown earth mound. The building has a circular plan with a central access passage, approached through an outer entrance that has flanking raked retaining walls, also with flat sandstone copings. Inside, there is a short vaulted access passage that leads to an access doorway with an iron-barred door, which opens into the circular ice chamber. This chamber has a curved floor cut into the bedrock and measures over 5 metres in diameter, topped with a shallow domed roof. The roof dome and the walls of the chamber above the bedrock are made of regularly coursed sandstone blocks, and the dome features a single ice chute. The ice house was constructed to the west of ornamental lakes within the parkland of Himley Hall, situated to the north of the hall itself.