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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 24 SE 76 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Icehouse, woodside, whitfield hill, kearsney, dover |
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Summary
Icehouse
| Grid Reference: | TR 294 436 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR24SE |
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| Parish: | WHITFIELD, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- ICEHOUSE (ICEHOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
| Protected Status: | Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England |
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Full description
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Situated about 12m from the present house (turn of the century construction), the possible ice-well is entered through a central opening at the top of the beehive-shaped structure, which extends below ground level into chalk bedrock surmounted by loam. Completely underground, and built of a double brick skin. Poor quality of brickwork throughout. An underfloor drain is covered by a yellow brick floor. May have also been used as a cess-pit, as a square brick top has been added, and two ceramic pipes have been driven through the sides at a fairly high level. (1)
<1> Roaf, S. & Beamon, S. P., 1990, The Ice Houses of Britain, Beamon and Roaf, 'The Ice Houses of Britain,' 1990. (Monograph). SKE8293.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Monograph: Roaf, S. & Beamon, S. P.. 1990. The Ice Houses of Britain. Beamon and Roaf, 'The Ice Houses of Britain,' 1990.. |
