Bodelwyddan Castle Ice House is a Grade II* listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 November 1962. Ice house.

Bodelwyddan Castle Ice House

WRENN ID
forbidden-passage-elder
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
16 November 1962
Type
Ice house
OS grid reference
SH 998 750
Coordinates
53.26276, -3.50357
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Bodelwyddan Castle Ice House is a circular ice house made of red brick, featuring a dome that is broken at the top. The underground part of the structure is said to taper downwards. The access on the west side is in a state of ruin.

Local climate

Bodelwyddan Castle Ice House 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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