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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1961
- Type
- Ice house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SP 9632-9732 WOBURN WOBURN PARK 3/181 23.1.61 Ice House approximately 500 m SSE of Basin Bridge - II Ice house. Begun 1788 by Henry Holland, for Francis 5th Duke of Bedford. Externally of coursed ironstone rubble with ashlar dressings, internally of brick. Raised on a slight mound, consists of circular domed structure half buried in ground, with single-storeyed circular ornamental exterior structure. Gothick style. Embattled parapet. 2-stage buttresses. Ornamental blind windows, all pointed-arched single-lights under square heads. Pointed-arched doorway to N with plank door. This gives onto entrance tunnel which originally probably contained 2 airlock doors. This tunnel opens approximately halfway up inner chamber. 2 trapdoors to domed roof, which is covered with tiles, bitumen and earth. Industrial Archaeology in Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire County Council, 1967, p. 22.
Listing NGR: SP9636831893
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