Icehouse Approximately 30 Metres South of the Quarters is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. Ice house.
Icehouse Approximately 30 Metres South of the Quarters
- WRENN ID
- peeling-lancet-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1987
- Type
- Ice house
- OS grid reference
- TM 072 200
- Coordinates
- 51.84092, 1.00662
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ice house, located approximately 30 metres south of The Quarters in Alresford Park, dates from the early 19th century. It is constructed of red brick, with a dome that is covered with earth. The entrance features a round-headed opening that leads into a sunken chamber, which is approximately 4 to 5 metres deep. This ice house is situated on an island and can be accessed by crossing a sluice and stepping stones near the eastern end of the ornamental lake.
Local climate
Icehouse Approximately 30 Metres South of the Quarters sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings