NHER 3888 (Monument record) - Post-medieval icehouse

Icehouse.
Egg shaped. From centre of dome, top twenty-two courses in header bond, next twenty-four stretcher bond. Well-preserved omphalos drain in centre at bottom, 3.4m (11ft) below passage. Passage about 1.8m (6ft) high, 1.06m (3ft 6in) wide, 3.4m (11ft) long. Passage sides English bond. Stretcher bond over roof. Pinkish red brick, not the same as in either the 1750 or 1829 portions of High House. Traces of inner door (slots), slight traces outer door. Traces of wooden ?beam over entrance to chamber, and similar fragments on dome within at same level. The ice is said to have come
from the pond by Hall Farm.
Mound overgrown with trees. Bat roosting site.
E. M. James (KLM) 12 February 1980.

Source [1] states that this has now been restored and trees removed.
Doorway into chamber continues into curve of dome.

December 1996. Earthwork Survey.
Survey at 1:1000.
See report (S1) for further details and copy of plan (S2). This site was included in (S3) and the survey is also noted in (S4).
B. Cushion (NLA) January 1997. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 8 April 2015.