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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 56 SW 104
Type of record:Monument
Name:Post medieval icehouse, Dunstall Farm

Summary

Icehouse and adjacent ice well C18 date


Grid Reference:TQ 535 613
Map Sheet:TQ56SW
Parish:SHOREHAM, SEVENOAKS, KENT

Monument Types

  • ICEHOUSE (ICEHOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

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Icewell of beehive shape with modern concrete cap, only 25 ins above ground, located in field of Dunstall Farm some 200yds from building. Another poss. icehouse located in the garden of the farm, (both given the same NGR) like a sunken cistern, may be a cess pit or a slurry pit 13' deep. (1)


<1> Roaf, S. & Beamon, S. P., 1990, The Ice Houses of Britain, Beamon, Icehouses of Britain, 1990. (Monograph). SKE8293.

Sources and further reading

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<1>Monograph: Roaf, S. & Beamon, S. P.. 1990. The Ice Houses of Britain. Beamon, Icehouses of Britain, 1990..