Ice House Approximately 200 Metres North West of Dallam Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. Ice house.
Ice House Approximately 200 Metres North West of Dallam Tower
- WRENN ID
- peeling-mantel-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Ice house
- OS grid reference
- SD 488 811
- Coordinates
- 54.22314, -2.78662
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This ice house, located approximately 200 metres north-west of Dallam Tower, is likely from the 19th century. It is constructed of stone and lined with brick. The structure features a circular domed chamber with a parapet surrounding a truncated cone-shaped pit. The entrance passage is equipped with slate doors and the building faces south.
Local climate
Ice House Approximately 200 Metres North West of Dallam Tower sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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