Ice House in Grounds of Geoffrey Harris House is a Grade II listed building in the Croydon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1998. A C18 Icehouse. 2 related planning applications.
Ice House in Grounds of Geoffrey Harris House
- WRENN ID
- errant-corner-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Croydon South MP: Chris Philp (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1998
- Type
- Icehouse
- Address
- Ice House in Grounds of Geoffrey Harris House, Coombe Road, CR0 5RD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 343 645
- Coordinates
- 51.36401, -0.07155
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ice house in the grounds of Geoffrey Harris House dates from the 18th century. It is constructed of red brick, featuring Flemish bond on the passage gable and English bond on the passage side walls, and is mostly covered with earth. The structure has a domed, circular storage chamber with a horse-shoe cross-section, more than half of which is sunk into the ground.
The entrance passage is located on the east side and has a round-arched entrance with a late 20th-century plank door beneath a gable. Inside, the passage has a stone floor and a brick vault, leading to the entrance of the chamber. At the end of the passage, on the north side, there is a flight of brick stairs that curve around the side of the chamber and lead down to a second door on the north side. Inside the chamber, there are four perforated clay-tile drains.
Local climate
Ice House in Grounds of Geoffrey Harris House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- 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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