We don't have any photos of this building yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?
Latitude: 51.7262 / 51°43'34"N
Longitude: -3.6783 / 3°40'41"W
OS Eastings: 284181
OS Northings: 204381
OS Grid: SN841043
Mapcode National: GBR H8.2FHQ
Mapcode Global: VH5GB.6W93
Plus Code: 9C3RP8GC+FM
Entry Name: Icehouse at Rheola House
Listing Date: 10 May 2011
Last Amended: 10 May 2011
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 87633
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300087633
Location: In parkland to the N of the B4242 between Resolven and Glynneath. Built into sloping ground on the NW side of Rheola Pond.
County: Neath Port Talbot
Community: Glynneath (Glyn-nedd)
Community: Glynneath
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Probably early C19 and contemporary with Rheola House, the country house of 1812-18 designed by John Nash for his cousin John Edwards. The parkland at Rheola is by Nash and the Edwards familys and is designed to be compact, picturesque and rural. The icehouse would have been built as part of the parkland as well as to provide ice for Rheola House and its estate.
Icehouse. Rectangular masonry largely subterranean structure built into sloping ground on its north side. Comprises two sections: lower curved, battered sub-structure which forms the main underground chamber and above narrower low rectangular vaulted structure. The upper part is overlain by a layer of earth with stone slates bedded onto this. Access to the main vaulted structure is through a narrow doorway, previously with gates, at the SW end of the upper section.
Short passage leads to the brick lined chamber at the NE end.
Included for its special architectural interest as a well preserved icehouse, important as a good example this type of structure and for its group value as part of the designed landscape at Rheola House.
External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.
Other nearby listed buildings
