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Latitude: 51.68 / 51°40'48"N
Longitude: -3.8345 / 3°50'4"W
OS Eastings: 273260
OS Northings: 199510
OS Grid: SS732995
Mapcode National: GBR H1.5B7K
Mapcode Global: VH4K5.H16F
Plus Code: 9C3RM5J8+25
Entry Name: Former icehouse to Dyffryn House
Listing Date: 22 December 2003
Last Amended: 22 December 2003
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 82326
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300082326
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.
County: Neath Port Talbot
Town: Neath
Community: Dyffryn Clydach
Community: Dyffryn Clydach
Locality: Dyffryn
Built-Up Area: Neath
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: House
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.
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.
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.
Included for its special historic interest as an increasing rare example of a C19 ice-house.
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