Ice House Approximately 500 Metres South South East of Basin Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1961. Ice house.
Ice House Approximately 500 Metres South South East of Basin Bridge
- WRENN ID
- lost-doorway-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1961
- Type
- Ice house
- OS grid reference
- SP 963 318
- Coordinates
- 51.97717, -0.59836
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ice house, located approximately 500 meters south-southeast of Basin Bridge, was begun in 1788 by Henry Holland for Francis, the 5th Duke of Bedford. It is built externally of coursed ironstone rubble with ashlar dressings and internally of brick. The structure is raised on a slight mound and consists of a circular domed design that is half buried in the ground, accompanied by a single-storeyed circular ornamental exterior. It is designed in the Gothick style, featuring an embattled parapet and two-stage buttresses. The exterior includes ornamental blind windows, all of which are pointed-arched single-lights under square heads. There is a pointed-arched doorway on the north side with a plank door that leads to an entrance tunnel, which likely originally contained two airlock doors. This tunnel opens approximately halfway up the inner chamber and features two trapdoors leading to the domed roof, which is covered with tiles, bitumen, and earth.
Local climate
Ice House Approximately 500 Metres South South East of Basin Bridge sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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