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Icehouse 720m south east of Bath House Farm is a nineteenth-century structure located in Yorkshire, England. The monument represents a common feature of rural estates during this period, designed to store ice harvested from frozen ponds and lakes for use in food preservation before mechanical refrigeration became widespread. The icehouse would have served the domestic and culinary needs of the associated estate, reflecting the technological and economic capabilities of its proprietors during the Industrial era.
Icehouse 720m south east of Bath House Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020715. View the official record →
Icehouse 720m south east of Bath House Farm is a nineteenth-century structure located in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020715.
Icehouse 720m south east of Bath House 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 1020715.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Romano-British enclosure and earthworks in Pot Ridings Wood (2.2 km), Conisbrough Castle (2.6 km), Castle Hills motte and bailey castle, Mexborough (2.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Icehouse 720m south east of Bath House Farm'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 720m south east of Bath House Farm stands on Pennine Upper Coal Measures Formation, bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.