Icehouse Approximately 20 Metres South of Sydenham House is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1988. Icehouse.
Icehouse Approximately 20 Metres South of Sydenham House
- WRENN ID
- tattered-threshold-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1988
- Type
- Icehouse
- OS grid reference
- SP 477 356
- Coordinates
- 52.01736, -1.30515
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The icehouse, located approximately 20 meters south of Sydenham House, is likely from the 18th century. It is built of coursed squared marlstone. The structure features an arched entrance on one side of the earth mound, which is partially below ground level and accessed by a flight of stone steps. Inside, there is a barrel-vaulted tunnel that leads to an egg-shaped vaulted chamber made entirely of stone. The icehouse is situated within the grounds of Adderbury House.
Local climate
Icehouse Approximately 20 Metres South of Sydenham House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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