Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
25111
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/04/2001
Date of Amendment
30/04/2001
Name of Property
Ice House at Gyrn Castle
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Llanasa
Town
Locality
Gyrn Castle
Easting
311484
Northing
381458
Street Side
Location
Approximately 300m ESE of the house, and on the SE side of a large fish pond.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
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.
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