Record Details
| NHER Number: | 3516 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Post medieval icehouse |
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Summary
This 19th century icehouse served Hillington Hall (NHER 3508). The domed brick chamber is located beneath a mound and is accessed via a brick-lined trench and a brick-lined tunnel. It was probably built during the 1820s.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 7279 2571 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF72NW |
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| Parish: | HILLINGTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Icehouse. Visit.
Small grassed mound about 9m (10 paces) diameter, 1.5m high. Entrance on north unusually not in side of mound, but as brick lined trench in surface of field with steps down, about 2m long. Barrel vaulted tunnel beyond with mark of outer door and stone surround to missing inner door, still wet with condensation. Chamber not spherical but brick domed over rendered straight sides - more like an ice well, however floor not visible as covered in rubbish. Total height probably about 4-5m.
Served Hillington Hall and probably dates from hall's rebuilding in 1820s. Unusually situated at top of hill 400m (quarter mile) south of Hall in park, and 530m (one third of a mile) southeast of Wilderness Pond, more probable source of ice as lake flows.
E. Rose (NAU), 18 April 1985.
Building in good condition as of 1992.
NIAS records (S1)
W. Arnold HES 24/01/11
Monument Types
- ICEHOUSE (19th Century to 21st Century - 1820 AD to 2100 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Archive: NIAS. Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society Records. |
Related records
| 30512 | Part of: Hillington Park (Monument) |