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The Icehouse at the site of Poynton Hall, 170 metres north of Towers Yard Farm, is a nineteenth-century ice storage structure located in Cheshire. The building represents a functional outbuilding typical of prosperous estates during the Georgian and Victorian periods, when artificial ice storage became an established feature of country house estates. The icehouse would have been used to preserve ice cut from nearby water sources during winter months, storing it beneath insulating layers of straw and sawdust for use throughout the warmer seasons in food preservation and domestic cooling. The survival of the structure provides evidence of the infrastructure and domestic practices maintained by the estate during this period.
Icehouse at the site of Poynton Hall, 170m north of Towers Yard Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018819. View the official record →
The Icehouse at the site of Poynton Hall, 170 metres north of Towers Yard Farm, is a nineteenth-century ice storage structure located in Cheshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018819.
Icehouse at the site of Poynton Hall, 170m north of Towers Yard 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 1018819.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Standing cross in St Christopher's churchyard (5.3 km), Nab Head bowl barrow (5.5 km), Bowl barrow 60m north of junction of London Road and Bonis Hall Lane (6.3 km).
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