Icehouse 60 Metres North West of St Leonards is a Grade II listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1994. Icehouse.
Icehouse 60 Metres North West of St Leonards
- WRENN ID
- silver-flue-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brentwood
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1994
- Type
- Icehouse
- OS grid reference
- TL 625 007
- Coordinates
- 51.68203, 0.34999
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The icehouse located 60 metres north-west of St Leonards is an early 19th-century structure built of red brick in header bond. It has undergone minor alterations for use as an air raid shelter around 1939, which include a concrete and iron door frame at the entrance and a concrete floor approximately 0.50 metres below ground level. An iron door is currently lying loose inside. The original entrance tunnel is missing and has been replaced by 20th-century low retaining walls. A rock garden was created over the brick dome around 1988. This icehouse is shown on the First, Second, and Third Editions of the 1:2500 OS map from 1874 and is likely contemporary with the associated house, St Leonards.
Local climate
Icehouse 60 Metres North West of St Leonards sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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