Icehouse 530 Metres South West of Carmelite Monastery is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1984. Icehouse. 1 related planning application.
Icehouse 530 Metres South West of Carmelite Monastery
- WRENN ID
- moated-spandrel-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1984
- Type
- Icehouse
- OS grid reference
- TM 031 872
- Coordinates
- 52.44545, 0.98732
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a disused icehouse located 530 meters south-west of the Carmelite Monastery, dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of brick, featuring swept entrance walls with coping that lead to a short passage. This passage opens into the interior, which has an inverted flat-bottomed cone shape made of header bond brickwork. Above this, there is an octagonal groin vault.
Local climate
Icehouse 530 Metres South West of Carmelite Monastery 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 lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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