Icehouse in Garden of Windley is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland National Park local planning authority area, England. Icehouse.
Icehouse in Garden of Windley
- WRENN ID
- fossil-threshold-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland National Park
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Icehouse
- Address
- Icehouse in Garden of Windley, Harbottle
- OS grid reference
- NT 935 047
- Coordinates
- 55.33677, -2.10284
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The icehouse in the garden of Windley, dating from the early 19th century, was formerly part of Harbottle Castle. Constructed from ashlar, it is built into a steep bank and features a retaining wall and a square porch, although the door is no longer present.
Inside, a short passage with three right-angled turns leads to the ice chamber, which is square and approximately 15 feet deep. The chamber has a tunnel-vaulted roof and offsets at regular intervals along the sides that once supported wooden shelves for holding ice. Additionally, there is a trap door in the vault, covered by a massive stone slab, which provides further access.
Local climate
Icehouse in Garden of Windley receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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