Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former icehouse to Dyffryn House
Dyffryn Clydach, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 22 December 2003
- Locality
- Dyffryn
- Town
- Neath
- Community
- Dyffryn Clydach
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.68001, -3.83454
- Cadw reference
- 82326
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
In an overgrown site at the edge of a field some 200m SW of the site of Dyffryn House and approximately 450m SW of the Church of St Matthew.
History
Icehouse, possibly contemporary with Dyffryn House which was some 200m NE. Marked on OS First Edition of 1884. Dyffryn was built for Howel Gwyn in 1853-5, apparently to his own design, and demolished in the 1930s as unsold in 1927.
Exterior
Icehouse, built mainly built below ground. Entrance to E has retaining wall of brick and squared stone with large stone lintel with shaped segmental arch. Step to entrance tunnel. To the W is top of circular domed brick icehouse with low wall and blocked entrance steps just further W.
Interior
E entrance has step down to tunnel going S with right-hand turn to W. Tunnel is mainly brick with some squared stone and has shallow segmental arched roof. Tunnel ends in circular brick domed-roofed ice-chamber.
Reason for designation
Included for its special historic interest as an increasing rare example of a C19 ice-house.
Nearby in the register
- The Grange, former stables and coach house to Dyffryn HouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Church of Saint MatthewReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Swiss GablesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Howel Gwyn memorial in churchyard of Church of St MatthewReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.