Ice House at Westover is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1994. Ice house.
Ice House at Westover
- WRENN ID
- winter-loft-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1994
- Type
- Ice house
- Address
- Ice House at Westover, Winkle Street, Calbourne, Newtown and Porchfield
- OS grid reference
- SZ 423 861
- Coordinates
- 50.67373, -1.40223
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ice house at Westover is an early 19th-century structure. It features an ashlar entrance with a four-centred arched doorway and a tooled stone parapet. The entrance is cambered brick leading to an ice well. The main chamber is elongated and beehive-shaped, constructed mainly of stone rubble, with a stock brick roof. There is a circular aperture in the roof that measures about 10 feet in diameter at its widest point.
Local climate
Ice House at Westover receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% 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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