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The ice house at Ascott House is a nineteenth-century structure built to preserve ice and frozen provisions for domestic use. Located approximately 190 metres north-west of Ascott Farm in Oxfordshire, it represents the technological infrastructure that supported the culinary and domestic arrangements of a substantial rural household during the Victorian era. Ice houses of this period were typically constructed as underground or partially underground chambers with thick insulating walls and were filled with ice cut from ponds or imported during winter months, allowing perishable foods to be stored throughout the warmer seasons. The structure survives as evidence of the practical innovations that characterised nineteenth-century estate management and the pursuit of domestic comfort among the gentry and landed classes.
Ice house at Ascott House, 190m north west of Ascott Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020969. View the official record →
The ice house at Ascott House is a nineteenth-century structure built to preserve ice and frozen provisions for domestic use. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020969.
Ice house at Ascott House, 190m north west of Ascott Farm 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 1020969.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ring ditches, cursus, enclosures and settlement site (4.7 km), Romano-British settlement 520m north west of Cooks Cottages (5.7 km), Long barrow 340m north west of Cooks Cottages (5.7 km).
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