Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
1739
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
30/01/1992  
Date of Amendment
26/10/1995  
Name of Property
Ice-House at Plas Power  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Wrexham  
Community
Coedpoeth  
Town
 
Locality
Bersham  
Easting
329763  
Northing
349963  
Street Side
 
Location
Remotely sited, set into a man-made bank on the edge of woodland close to Offa's Dyke; to NW of site of Plas Power house and to E of Garden Cottages.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Plas Power Estate lies NW of Bersham and SE of Coedpoeth; the ice house is near the southern end of the park and is reached 1km along N drive off A525. Plas Power was completely remodelled in 1858 for Thomas Lloyd Fitzhugh by John Gibson, architect, of London and was demolished in 1946-7. The Ice House is largely contemporary with this remodelling and the associated improvements to the estate, although appears to have had later alterations.  

Exterior
Circular, red brick structure with conical slate roof. N (upper) side has large, gable ended porch with coursed rubble base; the change to brickwork probably indicates later enlargement. Stone lintel over outer entrance to steps down to ice chamber.  

Interior
Domed and brick lined ice chamber with round-headed entrance arch that slopes and curves inwards resulting in complex brickwork; stone sill. Either side of this are concave recesses.  

Reason for designation
Listed as a rare example of an intact ice house and for its special interest as a surviving estate building at Plas Power.  

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