Ice House in Grounds of Marsden Nurseries, Approximately 140 Metres North East of Ashtead House is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. Ice house.
Ice House in Grounds of Marsden Nurseries, Approximately 140 Metres North East of Ashtead House
- WRENN ID
- broken-lime-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mole Valley
- Constituency
- Epsom and Ewell MP: Helen Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Ice house
- OS grid reference
- TQ 196 584
- Coordinates
- 51.31294, -0.28425
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ice house, located in the grounds of Marsden Nurseries approximately 140 metres north-east of Ashtead House, dates from the 18th century and has been restored. It is made of handmade brick and features an egg-shaped vessel that is mostly underground, topped with a domed roof constructed of headers only. Surrounding the structure is a low wall, and there is a doorway in the north-east quadrant flanked by short, low splayed walls, which are slightly damaged. The structure is now exposed but was likely once covered with earth. The interior has been infilled to just below ground level. This ice house was probably built to serve Ashtead House.
Local climate
Ice House in Grounds of Marsden Nurseries, Approximately 140 Metres North East of Ashtead House 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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