Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Plas Cadnant Icehouse
Menai Bridge, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 18 July 1997
- Locality
- Cwm Cadnant
- Town
- Menai Bridge
- Community
- Menai Bridge
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.23570, -4.16472
- Cadw reference
- 18563
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 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Located in a field c50m SW of Plas Cadnant.
History
Plas Cadnant was built in 1803, the icehouse is likely to be near-contemporary.
Exterior
A rectangular structure c3m x 2.5m x 2.5m deep, sunk into the ground the roof covered with turf, the upper part of the NW end is open with only c50cm of the brick barrel vault visible.
Interior
Built of brick with a barrel vault roof, the floor and walls below the springing line are rendered.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good, well-preserved example of an ice house associated with a gentry house of the early C19 for which it formed part of the domestic offices.
Nearby in the register
- Plas CadnantDomesticunder 1 mi
- Plas Cadnant domestic service outbuilding and wallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bridge over Afon CadnantTransportunder 1 mi
- Bridge over Afon Cadnant (partly in Menai Bridge community)Transportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.