Listed Building record MDO10172 - Ice house at Alton Pancras Manor

A brick-built, vaulted chamber with a stone doorway, set partly underground. It is thought to have been an ice house and to have been built in the 17th century. It is incorporated into a later range of buildings south of Alton Pancras Manor House. The chamber is divided into two, and one part has been used for cider making.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 1-2 (Monograph). SDO146.

‘(2) MANOR HOUSE (69940238) … To the W., another brick-built outhouse has a stone doorway with an elliptical head; this leads to a vaulted, partly underground chamber, perhaps an Icehouse.’

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1987, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1986, 199 (Serial). SDO86.

'The manor House was built or remodelled by Thomas Haskett c. 1730. the icehouse is partly underground and consists of a vaulted chamber. It was probably built in the 19th century (RCHM 1970, 2).'

<3> English Heritage, 2006, Listed buildings data disk (Digital archive). SDO12545.

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Aug 28 2020 4:02PM