Ice House at No. 143a is a Grade II listed building in the Richmond upon Thames local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 2004. Ice house.
Ice House at No. 143a
- WRENN ID
- nether-courtyard-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Richmond upon Thames
- Constituency
- Richmond Park MP: Sarah Olney (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 2004
- Type
- Ice house
- Address
- Ice House at No. 143a, Petersham Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 180 732
- Coordinates
- 51.44635, -0.30279
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ice house at No. 143A is a Grade II listed structure dating from the 18th century, with repairs made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of red-brown and stock brick and is covered by an earth mound. The ice house features a barrel-vaulted tunnel that is approximately eight feet long, leading to a hemispherical chamber about nine feet in diameter, both filled to ground level and having a concrete floor. The interior walls are rendered. The entrance and the outer side of the tunnel have been damaged on the left side due to tree roots. On the right side, a 20th-century brick wall has been added, bonded into the original structure, serving as a screen or buttress. A 20th-century vertically boarded door is set back under the entrance to the tunnel.
This ice house was formerly part of the grounds of Petersham House. No. 143A, previously known as Magnolia House, served as the stables for the main house and is balanced by No. 141 to the east.
Local climate
Ice House at No. 143a 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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