Square Court and Ice House is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1986. Court, ice house.
Square Court and Ice House
- WRENN ID
- young-parapet-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1986
- Type
- Court, ice house
- Address
- Square Court and Ice House, North Nibley
- OS grid reference
- ST 738 968
- Coordinates
- 51.66983, -2.37996
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Square Court and Ice House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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