The Icehouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Icehouse.
The Icehouse
- WRENN ID
- winter-pavement-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Icehouse
- Address
- The Icehouse, Cambridge Road, Babraham
- OS grid reference
- TL 516 507
- Coordinates
- 52.13461, 0.21487
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Icehouse is an icehouse dating from the mid to late 18th century. It is cut into the natural chalk and features a low dome roof made of red bricks, which are two and a half inches in size, and covered with earth. Access to the icehouse is provided by a short vaulted tunnel that leads in from the north. At the bottom of the shaft, there is a square meltwater soakaway that has a wrought iron grating.
Local climate
The Icehouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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