Ice House at Hafod is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 September 1999. Ice house.

Ice House at Hafod

WRENN ID
deep-landing-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
3 September 1999
Type
Ice house
Address
Ice House at Hafod, Ystrad Meurig, Pontarfynach
OS grid reference
SN 759 729
Coordinates
52.34087, -3.82244
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The ice house at Hafod is a structure that appears as a mound covered in undergrowth. It features a passage entry facing northeast, which has rubble revetments. The doorway is roughly constructed and pointed, set within a recess that includes a voussoired segmental head. Inside, there is a very deep crucible made of rubble, topped with a domical shape.

Local climate

Ice House at Hafod sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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