Icehouse to the NW of the Kitchen Garden at Kinmel is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 August 1997. Icehouse.

Icehouse to the NW of the Kitchen Garden at Kinmel

WRENN ID
crooked-latch-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Conwy
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
5 August 1997
Type
Icehouse
Address
Icehouse to the NW of the Kitchen Garden at Kinmel, Abergele
OS grid reference
SH 983 745
Coordinates
53.25854, -3.5254
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The icehouse located to the northwest of the Kitchen Garden at Kinmel is a Grade II listed structure. It features a facade made of limestone rubble, with an entrance that includes a re-used ovolo-moulded beam. Most of the building is buried within a hillock.

An approach passage, about 6 meters long, leads to the domed icehouse, which has a diameter of approximately 3 meters. The dome is constructed with diminishing brick courses. The lower section of the ice chamber has been filled in.

Local climate

Icehouse to the NW of the Kitchen Garden at Kinmel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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