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icehouse, Holker Hall
site name:-   Holker Hall
civil parish:-   Lower Holker (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   icehouse
coordinates:-   SD35257732
1Km square:-   SD3577
10Km square:-   SD37

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"ICE HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 640 METRES TO WEST OF HOLKER HALL / / B5278 / LOWER HOLKER / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 77042 / SD3526177323"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Ice House. Recorded 1732. Dressed stone, slate and brick. Round structure in 2 tiers, the top tier smaller in diameter. Stone walls, with earth covering roofs. Entrance to west has slate door; 2 inner doors to passage. Chamber has floor sloping to central drain and spiral brickwork to dome; iron ventilating pipe to top. The oldest remaining ice house in Cumbria (Transactions CWAAS, 1981)."

references:-  
Described in:-

David, R G: 1981: Icehouses of Cumbria: Trans CWAAS: series 2 vol.81: 137-155

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