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Icehouse 190m east of Firle Place is a nineteenth-century ice storage structure located near the country house of Firle Place in East Sussex. The building represents a functional element of the estate's domestic infrastructure, typical of the period when artificial ice storage became a standard feature of grand houses before mechanical refrigeration. The structure survives as evidence of the technological practices and estate management systems employed during the Victorian era. Its designation as a listed monument reflects its value as a material record of nineteenth-century domestic life and estate organisation.
Icehouse 190m east of Firle Place is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019249. View the official record →
Icehouse 190m east of Firle Place is a nineteenth-century ice storage structure located near the country house of Firle Place in East Sussex. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019249.
Icehouse 190m east of Firle Place 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 1019249.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Newhaven military fort and lunette battery (7.4 km), Medieval crypt, Church Street (8.2 km), Bowl Barrow on Peacehaven Heights, 242m south-west of Warren Court (8.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Icehouse 190m east of Firle Place's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Icehouse 190m east of Firle Place stands on Grey Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is chalk.