Ice House in Castle Ashby Park is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. Icehouse.
Ice House in Castle Ashby Park
- WRENN ID
- white-railing-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Icehouse
- OS grid reference
- SP 867 592
- Coordinates
- 52.22475, -0.73084
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The icehouse in Castle Ashby Park is a structure from the mid-18th century, possibly with earlier origins. It is constructed of limestone rubble with limestone dressings. The entrance front features a pediment and a doorway with stop-moulded jambs, which may be re-used, and a flat-arched head. A short tunnel leads to a domed chamber that is partly built within the east end of the dam between the Park and Menagerie ponds. Castle Ashby Park and gardens are recognized in the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission Register of Parks and Gardens for Northamptonshire at Grade I.
Local climate
Ice House in Castle Ashby Park sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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