Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
82326
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/12/2003
Date of Amendment
22/12/2003
Name of Property
Former icehouse to Dyffryn House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Dyffryn Clydach
Town
Neath
Locality
Dyffryn
Easting
273260
Northing
199510
Street Side
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.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
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.
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