Middleton Park Icehouse Approximately 300 Metres to North West is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1987. Icehouse.

Middleton Park Icehouse Approximately 300 Metres to North West

WRENN ID
frozen-thatch-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cherwell
Constituency
Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1987
Type
Icehouse
OS grid reference
SP 523 235
Coordinates
51.90788, -1.24003
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Middleton Park Icehouse, located approximately 300 meters to the northwest, dates from the 18th century. It is constructed of coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings and features a brick interior. The rectangular entrance front has a semi-circular archway beneath a projecting string and likely originally included a simple triangular pediment. The entrance is situated at the end of a long mound. Inside, the entrance leads to two lobbies that are barrel-vaulted in brick, each with round-arched stone doorways. The inner chamber is topped with a brick dome.

Local climate

Middleton Park Icehouse Approximately 300 Metres to North West 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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