Ice House at Billiard Room Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1987. Ice house. 2 related planning applications.
Ice House at Billiard Room Cottage
- WRENN ID
- narrow-newel-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1987
- Type
- Ice house
- Address
- Ice House at Billiard Room Cottage, Hall Drive, Santon Downham
- OS grid reference
- TL 812 876
- Coordinates
- 52.45698, 0.6656
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ice house at Billiard Room Cottage is a structure from the early to mid 19th century. It is built of gault brick with red brick dressings and features flint splay walls. The ice house appears to be spherical in shape and is partially filled with rubble. It has a short, turned entrance located above ground level on the north side. The entrance on the south side has a rectangular gault brick face with a red brick arch, flint cobble splays on each side, and brick dressings. Inside, there is a brick tunnel with a ramp leading to a level surface, and triangular-headed openings lead to the well. This ice house was associated with a former hall that has since been demolished.
Local climate
Ice House at Billiard Room Cottage 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 86% 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 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 2 applications
- 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
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