Ice House at Benarth Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 December 1995. Linen factory. 3 related planning applications.

Ice House at Benarth Hall

WRENN ID
lone-chalk-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Conwy
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
28 December 1995
Type
Linen factory
Address
Ice House at Benarth Hall, Henryd, LL32 8UB
OS grid reference
SH 788 769
Coordinates
53.27529, -3.8184
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a late 18th-century ice house built to serve Benarth Hall. The hall was likely constructed around 1790 for Samuel Price of Lincoln’s Inn. It was sold in 1805, together with a 135-acre estate and farm, and described as an "elegant, commodious and modern built mansion house." The sale particulars highlighted the extensive gardens, including a hot house, green house, pinery, melon pit, peachery and ice house. The ice house itself is a red brick structure with a domed, elongated, egg-shaped form, built predominantly underground. It has a barrel-vaulted entrance of brick and rubble and includes a short entrance tunnel, which is partially collapsed. The ice house survives in good condition.

Local climate

Ice House at Benarth Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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