Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Icehouse at Hillgate
Kerry, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 12 September 1996
- Locality
- Pentre
- Town
- Newtown
- Community
- Kerry
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.48118, -3.23737
- Cadw reference
- 17310
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Hillgate is located on the old road from Kerry to Kerry Pole, approximately 1¼km N of Pentre crossroads, on a ridge above Llwyn-y-rhwd dingle. The icehouse is located under a pine tree at the entrance to the property.
Exterior
The icehouse, probably of the early C19, comprises a tunnel covered by a segmental/horseshoe stone vault, originally plastered, and heaped earth over forming a mound. It is approximately 12m long and 2m wide, 1.4m high, with recesses having cast iron fronts on either side, 1½m back from the front. The passage is said to have a chamber below its floor, now filled up. The entrance front, with drystone wing walls, was once provided with a timber door and frame within the arch.
Reason for designation
Included as the best preserved of the two surviving icehouses in Kerry, the other being at Cefn-y-mynach, and symbolic of rural economy up to the later C19.
Nearby in the register
- Mile marker at CilthriewTransportunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding at CilthriewAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Farm building at Cilthriew FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- CilthriewDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.