Ice House Approximately 4 Metres West of Hill Court is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1992. Ice house.
Ice House Approximately 4 Metres West of Hill Court
- WRENN ID
- other-iron-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1992
- Type
- Ice house
- OS grid reference
- SP 476 201
- Coordinates
- 51.87788, -1.30958
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an ice house located approximately 4 meters west of Hill Court in Tackley, believed to have been built between 1773 and 1787 based on map evidence. The exterior is made of coarsed local stone, while the interior features brick. The facade has a central gable above a plain square-headed opening, which is topped with a stone lintel. This opening leads into a brick vaulted and paved tunnel. Inside, there is a circular chamber with a domed brick roof and a stone floor.
Local climate
Ice House Approximately 4 Metres West of Hill Court 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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