Ice House in Garden at Powis Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 February 1996. Ice house.

Ice House in Garden at Powis Castle

WRENN ID
hollow-corridor-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 February 1996
Type
Ice house
Address
Ice House in Garden at Powis Castle, Welshpool
OS grid reference
SJ 213 062
Coordinates
52.64795, -3.16337
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The ice house in the garden at Powis Castle is believed to have been built in the early 19th century and was restored in the 1980s. It is constructed of brick and features a domed shape above ground, with a round-arched short passage entry leading to a deep ovoid chamber. This ice house is an exceptionally well-preserved example and serves as a significant relic of the domestic economy of the castle.

Local climate

Ice House in Garden at Powis Castle receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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