Icehouse Approximately 90 Metres South of Shirburn Castle is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1987. Icehouse.
Icehouse Approximately 90 Metres South of Shirburn Castle
- WRENN ID
- final-casement-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1987
- Type
- Icehouse
- OS grid reference
- SU 696 958
- Coordinates
- 51.65711, -0.99451
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The icehouse, located approximately 90 meters south of Shirburn Castle, dates from the 18th century. Its front wall is constructed of Flemish bond brick featuring flared headers, while the other walls and the curved roof are rendered in concrete. A flat brick arch is present above the doorway. Inside, there is a short passage that leads to an ovolo-shaped ice-pit.
Local climate
Icehouse Approximately 90 Metres South of Shirburn Castle 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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