Icehouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. Icehouse.

Icehouse

WRENN ID
cold-corner-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Harrogate and Knaresborough MP: Tom Gordon (LD)
Country
England
Type
Icehouse
Address
Icehouse, Allerton Park, Allerton Mauleverer with Hopperton
OS grid reference
SE 413 583
Coordinates
54.0196, -1.36964
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The icehouse at Allerton Park dates from the early 19th century and is constructed of gritstone and brick. It features a large mound with a retaining wall approximately 8 metres long on the north side, which has a central entrance leading to the underground chamber. The entrance is fitted with a 19th-century segmental-headed plank door that is surrounded by coursed, rock-dressed stone. The flanking wall consists of large, uncoursed boulders topped with ashlar coping. Inside, there is a narrow brick-lined passage that leads down a flight of five steps to a deep circular brick-lined pit with a domed roof.

Local climate

Icehouse 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 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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