NHER 20511 (Monument record) - Site of Kirby Bedon icehouse

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Summary

The site of a post medieval ice house serving nearby Kirby Bedon Hall. The ice house was destroyed in the 19th century to make way for a pond, now itself only visible as a slight depression in an arable field.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG20NE
Civil Parish KIRBY BEDON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

July 1984. Visited.
Site of icehouse. Served Kirby Bedon Hall (1604 and later) across the road to the south, but no immediate source of ice; river a considerable distance to the north. (S1) describes it as having had a flight of steps down to it. Destroyed some time in 19th century and site became a pond, as still marked on Ordnance Survey map but now only a depression in arable field.
E. Rose (NAU), 5 July 1984

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Publication: Kinder. 1909. Kirby Bedon.

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Record last edited

Mar 12 2019 10:37AM

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