Ice House 230 Metres West of Appuldurcombe House is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1983. Icehouse.

Ice House 230 Metres West of Appuldurcombe House

WRENN ID
lapsed-finial-curlew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Isle of Wight
Constituency
Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 October 1983
Type
Icehouse
OS grid reference
SZ 540 800
Coordinates
50.61724, -1.23719
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The ice house, located 230 metres west of Appuldurcombe House, dates from the late 18th century. It is an earth mound with a stone rubble revetment wall that covers a brick chamber and a stone vaulted entrance passage. The northwest entrance features a segmental-headed portal that provides access to a passage leading to a chamber that is 3.2 metres in diameter. This ice house is one of three garden buildings that remain from the former park of Appuldurcombe, which was designed by Capability Brown around 1781, alongside the Freemantle Lodge Gateway and the remains of an obelisk on Appuldurcombe Down.

Local climate

Ice House 230 Metres West of Appuldurcombe House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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