Icehouse Circa 300 Yards East of Biddlestone Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland National Park local planning authority area, England. Icehouse.
Icehouse Circa 300 Yards East of Biddlestone Chapel
- WRENN ID
- last-tin-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland National Park
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Icehouse
- OS grid reference
- NT 958 082
- Coordinates
- 55.36865, -2.06781
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This icehouse, dating from the early 19th century, is located approximately 300 yards east of Biddlestone Chapel. It is constructed of ashlar and built into a steep bank, featuring a retaining wall and a square porch.
Inside, a short passage with three right-angled turns leads to the ice chamber, which is square and about 15 feet deep. The chamber has a tunnel-vaulted roof and offsets at regular intervals along the sides, which once supported wooden shelves for holding ice. Additionally, there is a trap door in the vault, covered by a massive stone slab, that provided further access.
Local climate
Icehouse Circa 300 Yards East of Biddlestone Chapel receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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