Ice House Approximately 40 Metres North Of Ascott Park Farmhouse

STADHAMPTON B480 SU69NW (South side) Ascott 6/115 Ice house approx. 40n. N of 18/07/63 Ascott Park Farmhouse (Formerly listed as Ascott House, Dovecote and Workshop Pavilion)

GV II

Ice house and granary. Probably early C18 incorporating earlier features. Brick in Flemish bond with some limestone dressings; thatch roof. Octagonal plan. 2 storeys plus basement. Entrance has a 4-centre arched stone doorway with ovolo mouldings, recessed spandrels and a label. It stands above a similar 3-centre arched basement doorway, without label, which is approached down a flight of brick steps. In 3 other walls is a 2-light stone-mullioned window with concave chamfers and labels. The windows may be C16 and the doorways early C17. Octagonal pyramidal roof. Interior: walls are mostly in header bond with segmental rear arches to windows cutting across chamfers. First floor structure has been removed. Roof structure C20. Basement has an octagonal brick saucer done. Part of the former formal gardens of Ascott Park. (Ascott Park is included in the HBMC County Registers of Gardens at Grade II; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VII, p.121; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.776; F. Woodward: Oxfordshire Parks, 1982).

Listing NGR: SU6119198212