Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ice House at Benarth Hall
Henryd, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Benarth Hall, Henryd, Conwy, designated on 28 December 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 28 December 1995
- Locality
- Benarth Hall
- Community
- Henryd
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.27528, -3.81839
- Cadw reference
- 17711
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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 94 Beaumaris (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated approximately 200m N of Benarth Hall within a dense wood and on sloping ground; built into the hillside.
Exterior
History: Late C18 ice house built to serve Benarth Hall. The hall was probably built for Samuel Price of Lincoln's Inn, c.1790. Sold by his executors on 26th June 1805, together with its 135 acre estate and farm. The sale particulars describe the house as 'An elegant, commodious and modern built mansion house, suitable for a large family and with every description of offices'. Included were the 'beautiful pleasure grounds laid out with great taste and enriched with forest trees and the choicest evergreens', as well as a 'hot house, green house, pinery, melon pit and peachery, and ice house'.
Description: Red brick domed ice house of elongated, egg-shaped form, built mostly underground; barrel-vaulted entrance of brick and rubble, with a short entrance tunnel, partly collapsed.
A late C18 ice house surviving in good condition and associated with Benarth Hall.
Nearby in the register
- Benarth Hall ( including balustraded terrace to SE )Domesticunder 1 mi
- Summerhouse at Benarth HallGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Island Quay (Cei Ynys)No class recordedunder 1 mi
- Tubular Railway BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.