Description

SP 01 NW WITHINGTON -

7/148 Ice house and attached wall
clOm south-east of Cassey
Compton House

GV II

Former icehouse. Coursed squared and dressed limestone; stone
slate roof. Wall partly ashlar partly coursed squared and dressed
limestone. Rectangular plan to icehouse, staggered wall runs away
for c7m towards canal on south. Icehouse; 1½ storeys. Plank door
at west gable end, small plank door to loft above. Three raking
buttresses along north wall. Gable ends asymmetrical. Barrel
vault to semi-subterranean ground floor room. Wall central blocked
single width doorway within section of wall nearest canal, blocked
window left. This section of wall probably represents a garden
wall which formerly ran away south from the south-east corner of
part of the house (now demolished). Wall left of this probably
formed part of the house wall with ashlar outer face. (Engraving
of c1712 by Kip in Atkyn's History of Gloucestershire).

Listing NGR: SP0500614995

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26449713

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)