Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ice House in Garden at Powis Castle
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Powis Castle, Welshpool, Powys, designated on 29 February 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 29 February 1996
- Locality
- Powis Castle
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.64793, -3.16338
- Cadw reference
- 16789
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 151 Welshpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1916 · Sheet 60. Shrewsbury. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Built into the bank above the small stream which feeds Garden Pool, SW of the castle
Exterior
History: The ice house is thought to have been constructed in the early C19, and was restored in the 1980's.
Description: Brick, domed above ground, with round-arched short passage entry, and deep ovoid chamber.
An exceptionally well-preserved example of an ice house and a significant relic of the domestic economy of the castle.
Nearby in the register
- Mount in Powis Castle ParkMotteunder 1 mi
- Peacock Statue to SW of Orangery Terrace in Powis Castle GardensCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Outer Gateway at Powis CastleDefenceunder 1 mi
- Ballroom Range at Powis CastleDefenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.