Summary Record

Date 2012

Event ID 933540

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Summary Record

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The Icehouse is set into a mound, to the north of the house, behind the Fruit Store and seems to have been built between 1792 and 1798. It consists of a stone-lined entrance passage, 1.1m wide, 1.8m high and 6.3m in length on the south-west of the chamber, leads to a well preserved ice-chamber (2.5m wide and 4m high) lined with ashlar masonry and supporting an arched brick roof. The egg shaped chamber is built into a mound of raised earth and rubble and is now partially filled.

Archaeological excavations were carried out in 2001 to investigate the entrance way and immediate interior of the Icehouse. These exposed a spiral pathway around the mound and a Victorian ornamental rockery covering the mound, as well as evidence for flagstone flooring to the Icehouse interior.

A local resident recalls the Icehouse ca. 1960 with an elaborate roof garden on top and paths spiralling up, but covered with ivy.

Information from NTS