Ice House, Donard Park, Newcastle, Ballaghbeg, Co Down is a Grade B1 listed building in the Newry, Mourne and Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland. First listed on 11 July 1977.
Ice House, Donard Park, Newcastle, Ballaghbeg, Co Down
- WRENN ID
- mired-grate-umber
- Grade
- B1
- Local Planning Authority
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Constituency
- South Down MP: Chris Hazzard (SF)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1977
- Irish grid reference
- J 364 295
- Coordinates
- 54.19666, -5.9104
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This is a roughly 1840 ice house, built to serve Donard Lodge. It is located on the north side of Thomas’s Mountain, just above the tree line in the Glen River Valley, within the Ballaghbeg townland. The structure is built into the hillside, with the south-east face obscured by the slope. It’s a bee hive shaped design, with circular, battered random rubble granite walls. The roof is a brick dome featuring a circular hole protected by a steel grille. A stone and brick barrel-vaulted porch is attached to the north-east side, providing access to the interior. The north-east face of the porch has a square-headed opening with a locked steel grille gate.
The ice house was constructed around 1840 and includes recent repairs, notably the rebuilding of the main dome. Original plans for Donard Lodge and Ordnance Survey maps (first edition and first revision) of County Down can be found in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) under references D.1503/10, OS/1/3/49, and OS/6/3/49/2. Its architectural interest lies in its style, proportions, plan form, spatial organisation, structural system, setting, and group value. It holds both social, cultural, economic, and local historical significance.
Local climate
Ice House, Donard Park, Newcastle, Ballaghbeg, Co Down sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% 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 0.2°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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