NHER 12451 (Monument record) - Post medieval icehouse

20 April 1977. Visit by E. Rose (NAU).
Ice-house.
Apparently connected with the house known as Harford Hills.
Probably 19th century, brick dome covered with earth and bushes, with sockets set round level of present floor of earth, approached by short brick passage around 2.1m (7ft) high, broken off abruptly behind foundations of buildings with brick and cobble floors, presumably outbuildings which gave access to it. Now full of rubbish but dome in excellent condition.
E. Rose (NAU) 20 April 1977.

6 June 1977.
This ice-house has now been rammed full of brick rubble in a senseless act of vandalism.

NIAS consider the holes around the base were in fact drain holes.

Oddly enough neither the icehouse nor the buildings that stood in front of it are shown on the 1886 first edition 25in Ordnance Survey. Surely the icehouse predates this. Was it totally buried, and the buildings added to it at a later date?
E. Rose (NLA), 15 September 2000.

Originally recorded in the parish of Eaton, now part of Norwich.