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
17711
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
28/12/1995  
Date of Amendment
28/12/1995  
Name of Property
Ice House at Benarth Hall  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Conwy  
Community
Henryd  
Town
 
Locality
Benarth Hall  
Easting
278844  
Northing
376909  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated approximately 200m N of Benarth Hall within a dense wood and on sloping ground; built into the hillside.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
 

Exterior
History: Late C18 ice house built to serve Benarth Hall. The hall was probably built for Samuel Price of Lincoln's Inn, c.1790. Sold by his executors on 26th June 1805, together with its 135 acre estate and farm. The sale particulars describe the house as 'An elegant, commodious and modern built mansion house, suitable for a large family and with every description of offices'. Included were the 'beautiful pleasure grounds laid out with great taste and enriched with forest trees and the choicest evergreens', as well as a 'hot house, green house, pinery, melon pit and peachery, and ice house'. Description: Red brick domed ice house of elongated, egg-shaped form, built mostly underground; barrel-vaulted entrance of brick and rubble, with a short entrance tunnel, partly collapsed. A late C18 ice house surviving in good condition and associated with Benarth Hall.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
 

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