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The largest surviving ice house in the UK is the Tugnet Ice House in Spey Bay. It was built in 1830, and used to store ice for packing salmon caught in the River Spey before transportation to market in London. [11] The ice house at Moggerhanger Park, Moggerhanger, Bedfordshire
The ice house was a part of the Tugnet salmon-fishing station that was built up in the late 18th century by the Gordon Estate, which employed some 150 people. [1] Fish would be caught in nets strung across the mouth of the river, [1] cleaned and processed, and then packed in ice to be transported to market in London by a fleet of boats. [5]
The ice house at Cosgrove Hall in December 2010. As well as the hall the other Grade II buildings on the estate are the dovecote , the stable block and the ice house . [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In front of the house, there is an excavated Roman bath house, viewable from the Grand Union Canal .
An ice house and neighbouring railroad line in Algiers, Louisiana, 1865. The international ice trade continued through the second half of the 19th century, but it increasingly moved away from its former, New England roots.
An 18th century red brick ice house and a bridge that spans the Nailbourne that feeds the lake in the grounds of Bourne Park are both Grade II listed. [2] [3] Originally known as Bourne Place, the present house was commissioned by Elizabeth Aucher, the widow of Sir Anthony Aucher. Built in place of an existing building belonging to the Bourne ...
English: Ice House Built around 1758 for Poynton Towers, a house which has long since disappeared. The listing indicates that this was quite a complex ice house with a later antechamber apparently used for food preparation before storage in the ice house - an early form of deep freeze in addition to the normal purpose for the storage of ice.
It features rhododendrons, magnolias, herbaceous borders and rare trees, as well as an ice house and early 19th-century summer house. The surrounding parkland and woods offer several circular walks. Plans attributed to William Sawrey Gilpin (1762-1843) for a new drive from Killerton to Columbjohn (1820) were not implemented. [5]
One such Victorian building is a former Malthouse. Adjacent to this building stands a cluster of buildings together styled the Ice House Quarter, [33] which includes a former Ice House and a former Boat House [34] A new building, Ice House Court [35] references the old Ice House and provides more artist studio space.