Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ice-House at Plas Power
Coedpoeth, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 January 1992
- Locality
- Bersham
- Community
- Coedpoeth
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.04230, -3.04905
- Cadw reference
- 1739
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
Remotely sited, set into a man-made bank on the edge of woodland close to Offa's Dyke; to NW of site of Plas Power house and to E of Garden Cottages.
History
Plas Power Estate lies NW of Bersham and SE of Coedpoeth; the ice house is near the southern end of the park and is reached 1km along N drive off A525.
Plas Power was completely remodelled in 1858 for Thomas Lloyd Fitzhugh by John Gibson, architect, of London and was demolished in 1946-7. The Ice House is largely contemporary with this remodelling and the associated improvements to the estate, although appears to have had later alterations.
Exterior
Circular, red brick structure with conical slate roof. N (upper) side has large, gable ended porch with coursed rubble base; the change to brickwork probably indicates later enlargement. Stone lintel over outer entrance to steps down to ice chamber.
Interior
Domed and brick lined ice chamber with round-headed entrance arch that slopes and curves inwards resulting in complex brickwork; stone sill. Either side of this are concave recesses.
Reason for designation
Listed as a rare example of an intact ice house and for its special interest as a surviving estate building at Plas Power.
Nearby in the register
- Stable Block at Plas PowerDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bath House in Plas Power ParkDomesticunder 1 mi
- Dairy at Plas PowerAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Game Larder at Plas PowerDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.