Ice House at Benenden School is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1993. Ice house.
Ice House at Benenden School
- WRENN ID
- upper-lime-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1993
- Type
- Ice house
- Address
- Ice House at Benenden School, Cranbrook Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 802 341
- Coordinates
- 51.07804, 0.57209
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ice house at Benenden School is an early 19th-century structure that was restored in the 1970s. It features a large beehive-shaped chamber constructed from English bond red brick, with a header bond at the top. The exterior displays exposed brickwork up to a height of about 5 feet. The original round-headed entrance has been replaced with a 20th-century brick entrance that has a flat gabled tiled roof and double wooden doors. This ice house was built for the original Hemstead House, which was demolished around 1859 when David Brandon constructed the current building.
Local climate
Ice House at Benenden School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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