The Ice House, Le Court Cheshire Home is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 January 2006. Ice house.
The Ice House, Le Court Cheshire Home
- WRENN ID
- narrow-lintel-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Farnham and Bordon MP: Gregory Stafford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 January 2006
- Type
- Ice house
- Address
- The Ice House, Le Court Cheshire Home, Greatham, East Hampshire
- OS grid reference
- SU 763 314
- Coordinates
- 51.07774, -0.91188
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ice House at Le Court Cheshire Home is an ice house built in the early to mid 19th century. It is associated with either a mansion that was demolished in 1865-1866 or an earlier house that once stood on the site. The structure features a cup and dome shape, with a circular domed brick chamber and a brick-lined passage. This passage measures 5.8 meters long, 1 meter wide, and 1.9 meters high, facing north-northwest. Notably, there are alcoves on either side of the passage close to the ice pit, which likely once had shelves. The passage ends in a brick cambered opening that has masonry sides and a timber door made of vertical planks. There are indications of three inner doors, and the domed ice pit is approximately 40 feet deep. The ice house is shown on the Ordnance Survey map from 1908-1910. It is significant as an intact example of an early to mid 19th-century estate ice house, retaining its dome and entrance passage, and uniquely featuring two alcoves in the passage before the ice well.
Local climate
The Ice House, Le Court Cheshire Home receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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