Ice House is a Grade II listed building in the Stafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1980. Ice house.

Ice House

WRENN ID
bitter-hinge-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stafford
Constituency
Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge MP: Sir Gavin Williamson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 April 1980
Type
Ice house
Address
Ice House, Sandon Park, Sandon and Burston
OS grid reference
SJ 955 291
Coordinates
52.86017, -2.06694
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Ice House, located approximately 600 yards north of Sandon Hall, dates from around 1780. It is a small chamber built into the side of a mound, featuring an ashlar wall at the front. The entrance has a doorway with a moulded reveal and a cambered head, topped by a stone pedimental feature.

Local climate

Ice House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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