Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ice House at Plas Heaton
Henllan, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Plas Heaton, Henllan, Denbighshire, designated on 29 June 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 29 June 2000
- Locality
- Plas Heaton
- Community
- Henllan
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.21021, -3.45184
- Cadw reference
- 23517
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located immediately opposite (to the S) of the stable and carthouse block, built into a revetted bank on the S side of a service track leading from the kitchen garden to the farmyard.
History
Early C19 ice house, probably contemporary with the general remodelling of the house c1800-1805.
Exterior
Brick ice house of conventional form with limestone rubble front walls raised up over a segmental entrance.
Reason for designation
Listed as a particularly good, unaltered early C19 ice house.
Group value with other listed items at Plas Heaton.
Nearby in the register
- C-shaped Agricultural Complex at Plas HeatonAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Stable and Carthouse Range at Plas HeatonAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Kitchen Garden Walls including associated Lean-to Sheds and adjoining Melon House at Plas HeatonGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Sundial at Plas HeatonGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.