Record Details
| NHER Number: | 3204 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Ice house |
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Summary
An ice house, probably of the 19th century. It is completely underground, with only a low mound showing on the surface. The entrance is down a flight of stairs, but there is no access as it is now a roosting place for bats.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 0379 3612 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG03NW |
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| Parish: | BRINTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Ice house.
13 November 1979. Visited by E. Rose. Unusual type; completely buried with only a low mound, and a very large tree on top. Entrance down a flight of steps; modern brick cladding on top of yellow brick similar to that in Hall of 1822. Modern door. Interior inaccessible as it is a bat roosting place and protected as such, but described by
J. Goldsmith as 'egg shaped'. E.Rose (NAU).
There were formerly three doors; the walls have eight putlog holes perhaps for shelves, and there is a metal trap door in the top of the dome for filling with ice, which is unusual in Norfolk.
NIAS records (S1)
W. Arnold HES 25/01/11
Monument Types
- ICEHOUSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Archive: NIAS. Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society Records. |
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