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Ice house.
Now beside new track.
Facade seems far later than Burnham Westgate Hall, and is unusual; flint with brick trimmings and a little turret at each end.
Behind, the more conventional half buried brick tunnel and dome.
Sealed by modern woodern door.
Very good condition.
Visited E. Rose (NAU) 21 February 1978.

Short tunnel, stone (clunch?) walls with brick vault.
Tunnel butts on to domed portion, with small aperture.
Domed brick lined pit about 4m diameter, very deep.
Clear marks of inner door to chamber; threshold very worn.
Drain in base of chamber about 15cm deep.
Bat roost.
E. Rose (NAU) 24 January 1981.

March 1985. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Icehouse, originally an outbuilding to Burnham Westgate Hall c.1800. Knapped flint, brick dressings, clunch lined walls and brick vault to tunnel, domed brick pit. Facade brick dressed arch to boarded door, brick coping, brick dressed rectangular end piers with copings."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 July 2021.

Owner states that after 1990 the icehouse was repaired and recovered with soil. They also planted low-growing shrubs to keep it from washing away. They also installed a wooden door with a small hole to allow bat roosting.
There is a sump in the floor, an unusual feature in Norfolk icehouses.
NIAS records (S2).
W. Arnold (HES), 24 January 2011.

Monument Types

• ICEHOUSE (Constructed, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status

• Listed Building

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• Parish Summary: Burnham Market (Parish Summary)