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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 | |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| 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" |
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| 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)." |
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| references:- |
Described in:- |
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| David, R G: 1981: Icehouses of Cumbria: Trans CWAAS: series 2 vol.81: 137-155 |
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