Icehouse to North West of Walled Garden is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 2000. Icehouse.

Icehouse to North West of Walled Garden

WRENN ID
tall-threshold-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 July 2000
Type
Icehouse
Address
Icehouse to North West of Walled Garden, Fornham St. Genevieve
OS grid reference
TL 838 685
Coordinates
52.28401, 0.69406
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The icehouse located to the northwest of the walled garden at Fornham St Genevieve dates from around 1785 and was designed by James Wyatt for Sir Charles Kent. It features a brick entrance situated on the edge of a mound and is reported to have a brick ovoid interior. This structure is part of a significant group of buildings at Fornham Park.

Local climate

Icehouse to North West of Walled Garden 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 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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