Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Icehouse at The Grondra
Shirenewton, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 January 2001
- Locality
- The Grondra
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Shirenewton
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.63954, -2.73382
- Cadw reference
- 24572
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
About 50m south of The Gronau.
History
A probably c1800 icehouse, which could be contemporary with the slightly earlier house.
Exterior
The icehouse is constructed of red sandstone rubble, with a probably brick vault, under the usual mound of earth.
Interior
It is entered by an elliptically arched tunnel about 10m in length leading to a rectangular vaulted room with a flat paved floor.
Reason for designation
Included as a late C18 or early C19 icehouse having group value with the adjacent The Grondra and its walled garden.
Nearby in the register
- The GrondraDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walls of Walled Garden at The GrondraDomesticunder 1 mi
- MilestoneTransportunder 1 mi
- Gatepiers and Gates at Wellhead LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.