Ice House About 20 Metres South East of Roxford House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. Ice house.
Ice House About 20 Metres South East of Roxford House
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1986
- Type
- Ice house
- OS grid reference
- TL 303 104
- Coordinates
- 51.77756, -0.1119
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ice house located about 20 meters southeast of Roxford House is an early 18th-century structure. It is built of red brick and features a segmentally vaulted chamber that is entirely below ground, with no visible mound. The chamber measures approximately 10 meters by 3 meters. Access is provided by steps leading down to a separately vaulted entrance passage, which includes a segmental-headed plank door and an arched niche. There are grated filling holes at the top, a niche at the end, and a drain in the floor.
Local climate
Ice House About 20 Metres South East of Roxford House 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 88% 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 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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