Information for record number MWA4903:
Site of Ice House 200m NE of Walton Hall

Summary The site of an icehouse dating to the Post Medieval and Imperial periods. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886. The bricks from the domed roof were apparantly removed during the 20th century. It was located 700m south of Walton.
What Is It?  
Type: Icehouse
Period: Post-medieval - Industrial (1540 AD - 1900 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Wellesbourne
District: Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 28 52
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
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1 Ice house marked.
2 This is one of two icehouses at Walton Hall (see PRN 4902). The icehouse has now disappeared. There is no depression or mound to show its exact situation. An old retired man living on the estate says that bricks from the domed top were removed to be used for other purposes, and that he himself helped to fill it with ice upward of fifty years ago. It appears to have been filled with rubbish before the First World War. The icehouse apparently had no side entrance - the ice was thrown in through a square trapdoor at the top, with a ladder for descent. It was drained from the bottom.
3 Beamon and Roaf refer to this ice house as no. 2 and report information given above. Also that the ice house drained from the bottome into the River Dene near the floodgate. They add that ice had been known to last here until the ice harvest of the following year.
 
Sources
Source No: 3
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: The Ice-Houses of Britain
Author/originator: Beamon, S.P. and Roaf, S.
Date: 1990
Page Number: 437 - 443
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Source No: 2
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: TBAS vol 72
Author/originator: Yorke F
Date: 1956
Page Number: 18-27
Volume/Sheet: 72
   
Source No: 1
Source Type: Map
Title: Map 1886
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1886
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: 6" series
   
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source TBAS Transactions of the Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society is a journal produced by the society annually. It contains articles about archaeological field work that has taken place in Birmingham and Warwickshire in previous years. Copies of the journal are kept by the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. back
period Medieval 1066 AD to 1539 AD (the 11th century AD to the 16th century AD)

The medieval period comes after the Saxon period and before the post medieval period.

The Medieval period begins in 1066 AD.
This was the year that the Normans, led by William the Conqueror (1066 – 1087), invaded England and defeated Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings in East Sussex.
The Medieval period includes the first half of the Tudor period (1485 – 1603 AD), when the Tudor family reigned in England and eventually in Scotland too.

The end of the Medieval period is marked by Henry VIII’s (1509 – 1547) order for the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the years running up to 1539 AD. The whole of this period is sometimes called the Middle Ages.
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period Post Medieval About 1540 AD to 1750 AD (the 16th century AD to the 18th century AD)

The Post Medieval period comes after the medieval period and before the Imperial period.

This period covers the second half of the reign of the Tudors (1485 – 1603), the reign of the Stuarts (1603 – 1702) and the beginning of the reign of the Hannoverians (1714 – 1836).
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period Imperial 1751 AD to 1914 AD (end of the 18th century AD to the beginning of the 20th century AD)

This period comes after the Post Medieval period and before the modern period and starts with beginning of the Industrial Revolution in 1750. It includes the second part of the Hannoverian period (1714 – 1836) and the Victorian period (1837 – 1901). The Imperial period ends with the start of the First World War in 1914.
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monument ICEHOUSE * A structure, partly underground, for the preservation of ice for use during warmer weather. back
monument HOUSE * A building for human habitation, especially a dwelling place. Use more specific type where known. back
monument SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument INDUSTRIAL * This is the top term for the class. See INDUSTRIAL Class List for narrow terms. back
monument SQUARE * An open space or area, usually square in plan, in a town or city, enclosed by residential and/or commercial buildings, frequently containing a garden or laid out with trees. back
monument MOUND * A natural or artificial elevation of earth or stones, such as the earth heaped upon a grave. Use more specific type where known. back

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