Monument record MDO4729 - Ice house in the grounds of Crawford House, Spetisbury

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 245 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(4) CRAWFORD HOUSE (91800190), 100 yds. S.W. of (2), is two-storied with dormer-windowed attics and has brick walls, partly rendered, and tiled roofs with stone-slate verges. At the N.E. end of the house is a small range of c. 1700; it is two-storied and has a S.E. front of one bay with a bow-window on the ground floor and a three-light casement window above. To the S.W. of this range, in the late 18th century, was added a larger range with a symmetrical S.E. front of three bays, with a central doorway flanked by tall sashed windows and three smaller sashed windows on the first floor. In the 19th century the S.W. range was extended further to the S.W. and another range was built parallel to it on the N.W. The interior of the house was much altered in the 19th century and retains no noteworthy features. In the garden to the S.W. is a brick-vaulted underground chamber, perhaps a late 18th-century ice-house. To the S. is a vaulted recess with a pedimental centre feature and ball finials on each side. The recess contains a curved wooden bench and appears to have been designed as a gazebo.’

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

'Crawford House, Spetisbury ST 918019. This late 18th century icehouse is an underground brick vaulted chamber sited in the garden (RCHM 1970, 245).'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209685 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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