Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ice Tunnels immediately to NE of Hartsheath
Leeswood and Pontblyddyn, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Hartsheath, Leeswood and Pontblyddyn, Flintshire, designated on 5 December 1997.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 5 December 1997
- Locality
- Hartsheath
- Community
- Leeswood and Pontblyddyn
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.13497, -3.06797
- Cadw reference
- 19105
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
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)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in a stone rubble wall to the NE of Hartsheath Hall.
History
Late C18/early C19 Ice Tunnels for Hartsheath Hall. Thought to have been used to store blocks of ice in a manner similar to more conventional ice houses. The rubble retaining wall has been greatly enlarged.
Exterior
3 barrel vaulted tunnels at the base of a large rubble retaining wall. Tunnels all of stone rubble construction. Length of tunnels unknown.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with the other buildings on the Hartsheath Estate.
Nearby in the register
- Retaining Walls flanking sunken Servants' Pathway at HartsheathDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hartsheath HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bridge carrying main drive over Servants' Pathway including gate piers at HartsheathDomesticunder 1 mi
- Coach-house and Stables to NE of HartsheathDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.