The Icehouse is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1985. Icehouse.
The Icehouse
- WRENN ID
- old-wattle-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 October 1985
- Type
- Icehouse
- Address
- The Icehouse, Houghton, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- OS grid reference
- TF 797 287
- Coordinates
- 52.82666, 0.66647
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Icehouse is an 18th-century brick structure located in Houghton Park. It consists of a tunnel, an outer chamber, and an inner chamber. The tunnel mouth is in a derelict state, and the interior, which was not seen, features a tunnel that is 115 feet long. The outer chamber has a groin vault and was used as a game larder in the 19th century. The inner chamber is domed with a flat central roof panel and has a partly covered floor.
Local climate
The Icehouse receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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