Description

TQ 36 SW
1005/5/10038

COOMBE ROAD
Ice House in grounds of Geoffrey Harris House

GV
II

Ice-house to Coombe House (qv, now Geoffrey Harris House). C18. Red brick, in Flemish bond to passage gable, English bond to passage side-walls; mostly covered in earth. Domed, circular, storage chamber, of horse-shoe cross-section, more than half sunk into the ground and the rest earth-covered. Entrance-passage, on east side, has round-arched entrance with late C20 plank door below gable. Inside, passage has stone floor and brick vault and leads to entrance to chamber and, at end on north side, to a flight of brick stairs which curve around the side of the chamber and lead down to a second, north, door. Inside the chamber, four perforated clay-tile drains. Source: Domestic Buildings Research Group (Surrey) Report No 2224 (1979).

Listing NGR: TQ3435064537

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26283001

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey