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The domed icehouse in Weston Park is a nineteenth-century ice storage structure typical of the utility buildings constructed on country estates during the Georgian and Victorian periods. Built beneath ground level with a brick dome, the icehouse was designed to preserve ice cut from the park's pond during winter months, allowing the house to maintain refrigeration throughout the warmer seasons before mechanical cooling became available. The structure exemplifies the practical engineering solutions employed by affluent landowners to service their households, and survives as a testament to the domestic technology and estate management practices of the period. As a scheduled monument, it represents an important surviving example of this now-obsolete building type.
Domed icehouse in Weston Park is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020916. View the official record →
The domed icehouse in Weston Park is a nineteenth-century ice storage structure typical of the utility buildings constructed on country estates during the Georgian and Victorian periods. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020916.
Domed icehouse in Weston Park is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1020916.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Chesfield Church (2.1 km), Earthworks in Boxwood (3.6 km), Wymondley Priory, barn, moat, associated earthworks, enclosures, platforms, hollow-way and conduit head (4.1 km).
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