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
87633
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/05/2011
Date of Amendment
10/05/2011
Name of Property
Icehouse at Rheola House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Glynneath
Town
Locality
Glynneath
Easting
284181
Northing
204381
Street Side
Location
In parkland to the N of the B4242 between Resolven and Glynneath. Built into sloping ground on the NW side of Rheola Pond.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Probably early C19 and contemporary with Rheola House, the country house of 1812-18 designed by John Nash for his cousin John Edwards. The parkland at Rheola is by Nash and the Edwards familys and is designed to be compact, picturesque and rural. The icehouse would have been built as part of the parkland as well as to provide ice for Rheola House and its estate.
Exterior
Icehouse. Rectangular masonry largely subterranean structure built into sloping ground on its north side. Comprises two sections: lower curved, battered sub-structure which forms the main underground chamber and above narrower low rectangular vaulted structure. The upper part is overlain by a layer of earth with stone slates bedded onto this. Access to the main vaulted structure is through a narrow doorway, previously with gates, at the SW end of the upper section.
Interior
Short passage leads to the brick lined chamber at the NE end.
Reason for designation
Included for its special architectural interest as a well preserved icehouse, important as a good example this type of structure and for its group value as part of the designed landscape at Rheola House.
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