The Ice House is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1997. Ice house.
The Ice House
- WRENN ID
- moated-balcony-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley MP: Tahir Ali (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1997
- Type
- Ice house
- Address
- The Ice House, Moseley Park
- OS grid reference
- SP 075 833
- Coordinates
- 52.44763, -1.89108
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ice House is a late 18th-century brick structure located in Moseley Park, Birmingham. It is a subterranean building situated beneath a slight earth mound. The ice house features a domed brick chamber that is approximately 16 feet deep and 12 feet in diameter, although it is partly infilled. There is a brick segmental vaulted entrance passage that includes a right-angle bend, with the outer doorway designed to accommodate a door. Inside the passage, there are jambs for additional doors. The chamber is constructed at least partly of cavity brick.
Local climate
The Ice House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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