Ice House at Sandgates is a Grade II listed building in the Runnymede local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1990. Ice house.
Ice House at Sandgates
- WRENN ID
- crooked-alcove-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Runnymede
- Constituency
- Runnymede and Weybridge MP: Dr Ben Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 July 1990
- Type
- Ice house
- Address
- Ice House at Sandgates, Guildford Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 034 660
- Coordinates
- 51.38439, -0.51538
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ice house at Sandgates is a 19th-century or earlier brick structure, featuring a domed shape that stands approximately 25 feet high and has a diameter of 20 feet. It includes a rectangular access point in the crown and a cambered arch supported by buttresses. This ice house is built into the side of an escarpment within a former landscaped garden that was part of the grounds of the now-demolished Sandgates convent.
Local climate
Ice House at Sandgates sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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