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Icehouse 260m north west of Castle Hill is a nineteenth-century ice storage structure located near Castle Hill in Devon. The building represents the practical infrastructure associated with estate management during the Victorian period, when artificial ice houses became common features on larger properties to preserve food before mechanical refrigeration. The structure survives as evidence of domestic technology and the material conditions of nineteenth-century country house life in Devon.
Icehouse 260m north west of Castle Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015464. View the official record →
Icehouse 260m north west of Castle Hill is a nineteenth-century ice storage structure located near Castle Hill in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015464.
Icehouse 260m north west of Castle Hill 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 1015464.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Castle Hill Cross (0.2 km), Fishpond in Lower Beer Wood, Castle Hill (0.5 km), Park pale and associated remains at Castle Hill (1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Icehouse 260m north west of Castle Hill'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 260m north west of Castle Hill stands on Teign Valley Group, bedrock that formed in the Namurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.