Monument record 2273 - Ice House at Endon Hall

Ice House in Endon Hall Garden, Oak Lane , Bollington. c.1840 for William Clayton. Coursed buff sandstone rubble with sandstone dressings. Entered by a flight of steps between revetment walls with stapled rounded coping. Icehouse at right angles to the steps, is entered through a door with a plain stone surround. it has a low segmental vault over a central passage flanked by 2 large stone troughs of stone flags with a stone flagged floor (1).

Situated under flower borders of ornamental garden 25m SW of the house. Chamber is c.6m longx 3m wide x2m deep. Two small stone and brick chambers at the end - purpose unknown. No water source for ice traced in locality, but suggest that crushed snow was collected from nearby range of hills ,and stored in large chamber . No public access.(2).

<1> Department of the Environment, 1971-2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, /2/40 (Report). SCH1934.

<2> Laurie I C, 1986, Ice Houses of Cheshire, /10 (Booklet-Leaflet). SCH3178.