Ice House At Convent Of The Sacred Heart is a Grade II listed building in the Epsom and Ewell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1994. Ice house.
Ice House At Convent Of The Sacred Heart
- WRENN ID
- other-keystone-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epsom and Ewell
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1994
- Type
- Ice house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The following building shall be added;
DORKING ROAD TQ 2060 (west side) 861-/30/10016 Ice-house at Convent of the Sacred Heart
GV II
Ice house, probably c. 1700. Brick, set in earth mound at end of long canal. Spherical, cup and dome shape, sixteen feet high at maximum and reached via narrow brick tunnel near its top. The ice house formed part of The Elms estate, visited by Celia Fiennes, during her travels through Surrey between 1708 and 1712, who described'two mounts cut smoothe, between is a canall, these mounts are severall stepps up under which are ice houses...' Sources: Christopher Morris, ed. 'The Joumeys of Celia Fiennes', 1947 Sylvia P Beamon and Susan Roaf, 'The Ice Houses of Britain', 1990
Listing NGR: TQ2031660244
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