The Ice House Adjacent to Entrance of Folkington Place is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1999. Ice house.
The Ice House Adjacent to Entrance of Folkington Place
- WRENN ID
- endless-timber-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1999
- Type
- Ice house
- OS grid reference
- TQ 559 038
- Coordinates
- 50.81323, 0.21251
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ice House adjacent to the entrance of Folkington Place is an ice house dating from the 18th century or early 19th century, housed within a mid-19th century protective structure. It is a rectangular, single-storey building made of flint with red brick dressings and a slate roof featuring wooden bargeboards on the east side. This side also includes a narrow round-headed arched doorway with tiled voussoirs. Inside, the earlier stone domed ice house appears to be intact.
Local climate
The Ice House Adjacent to Entrance of Folkington Place receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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