Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ice House at Gyrn Castle
Llanasa, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Gyrn Castle, Llanasa, Flintshire, designated on 30 April 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 30 April 2001
- Locality
- Gyrn Castle
- Community
- Llanasa
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.32262, -3.33034
- Cadw reference
- 25111
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 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1885 · OS One-Inch (Hills) 1885-1903 (National Library of Scotland)
- 1896 · 96 Liverpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1930 · OS Popular Edition 1919-1947 (National Library of Scotland)
Cadw's description
Location
Approximately 300m ESE of the house, and on the SE side of a large fish pond.
History
Gyrn Castle was rebuilt by John Douglas in 1817-24 and was subsequently purchased by Sir Edward Bates, a Liverpool merchant and ship owner. The ice house is not precisely dated, but it is shown on the 1871 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A circular ice house comprising low walls of rubble stone and a conical roof of low pitch, covered with metal sheets and some slate, partly fallen, and the whole structure obscured by dense vegetation. On the S side is a gabled projection of coursed stone with raised verge. Central boarded double doors (one half missing) are beneath a stone lintel, above which is a small lintelled opening.
Interior
The entrance leads into a lobby, at the end of which is a doorway with brick jambs and stone lintel to the main chamber. The chamber has coursed stone walls, a domical vault and is set below ground level.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved C19 ice house and for group value with Gyrn Castle and other associated listed items.
Nearby in the register
- South LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Glanyrafon FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stone Cottage (also known as Ffordd Dwr)Domesticunder 1 mi
- 1/2 Glanyrafon CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.