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The Icehouse at Ringstead is a nineteenth-century structure located in Dorset, England. Such icehouses were built to store ice harvested during winter months for use in food preservation and domestic cooling throughout the warmer seasons, reflecting the technological and economic practices of the Georgian and Victorian periods. The structure represents an important example of pre-mechanical refrigeration infrastructure, demonstrating the methods by which the wealthy maintained perishable goods before the advent of modern refrigeration technology. Its survival as a recorded monument indicates its archaeological and historical value in understanding domestic life and food preservation practices in rural Dorset during the modern period.
Icehouse at Ringstead, 660m south west of Pit House is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020358. View the official record →
The Icehouse at Ringstead is a nineteenth-century structure located in Dorset, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020358.
Icehouse at Ringstead, 660m south west of Pit House 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 1020358.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 200m south east of Hill Barn: one of a group of three barrows (3 km), Two bowl barrows 560m south east of Hill Barn (3.3 km), Earl of Abergavenny (4.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Icehouse at Ringstead, 660m south west of Pit House'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 at Ringstead, 660m south west of Pit House stands on West Walton Formation, Ampthill Clay Formation And Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Kimmeridgian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.