Ice House is a Grade II listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1988. Ice house.

Ice House

WRENN ID
vast-basalt-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Broadland
Constituency
Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 March 1988
Type
Ice house
Address
Ice House, Silvergate Lane, Blickling
OS grid reference
TG 178 283
Coordinates
52.80895, 1.23072
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The ice house, likely from the 18th century, is an underground chamber built of brick and circular in shape. It features a tapering domed vault that is covered by an earth mound. On the north side, there is a short barrel-vaulted entrance tunnel, which is supported by later square brick piers.

Local climate

Ice House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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