Square Court And Ice House

Square Court and ice house is a small square court built around 1860 for Reverend David Edwards. It features brick walls and marlstone ashlar archways, with a whale-bone entrance arch leading to the ice house. The square court is accessed from the north side, where the walls are brought down to ground level. A Moorish key-hole stone archway is located on the south side, and an Egyptian archway to the left leads to a pathway that ends at a lakeside seat.

To the right, two large curved whale bones create a pointed-arched entry to the ice house, followed by a timber version of the Egyptian archway that leads into the brick and stone-lined inner chamber, which contains another Egyptian arch in stone and the ice chamber beyond. In the center of the court stands a simple stone urn. A Moorish arch leads to a curving brick tunnel-vaulted corridor, mostly above ground level, which ends at the south with a plain brick round arch. This structure is located immediately to the east of Lake Lodge and is part of a series of features within the extensive Regency and early Victorian landscaped park and pleasure gardens.