Former icehouse to Dyffryn House, Dyffryn Clydach, Neath Port Talbot

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.68 / 51°40'48"N

Longitude: -3.8345 / 3°50'4"W

OS Eastings: 273260

OS Northings: 199510

OS Grid: SS732995

Mapcode National: GBR H1.5B7K

Mapcode Global: VH4K5.H16F

Plus Code: 9C3RM5J8+25

Entry Name: Former icehouse to Dyffryn House

Listing Date: 22 December 2003

Last Amended: 22 December 2003

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 82326

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300082326

Location: In an overgrown site at the edge of a field some 200m SW of the site of Dyffryn House and approximately 450m SW of the Church of St Matthew.

County: Neath Port Talbot

Town: Neath

Community: Dyffryn Clydach

Locality: Dyffryn

Built-Up Area: Neath

Traditional County: Glamorgan

Tagged with: House

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History

Icehouse, possibly contemporary with Dyffryn House which was some 200m NE. Marked on OS First Edition of 1884. Dyffryn was built for Howel Gwyn in 1853-5, apparently to his own design, and demolished in the 1930s as unsold in 1927.

Exterior

Icehouse, built mainly built below ground. Entrance to E has retaining wall of brick and squared stone with large stone lintel with shaped segmental arch. Step to entrance tunnel. To the W is top of circular domed brick icehouse with low wall and blocked entrance steps just further W.

Interior

E entrance has step down to tunnel going S with right-hand turn to W. Tunnel is mainly brick with some squared stone and has shallow segmental arched roof. Tunnel ends in circular brick domed-roofed ice-chamber.

Reasons for Listing

Included for its special historic interest as an increasing rare example of a C19 ice-house.

External Links

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Other nearby listed buildings

II The Grange, former stables and coach house to Dyffryn House
In Dyffryn some 75m N of the site of Dyffryn House and approximately 400m SW of the Church of St Matthew.
II Church of Saint Matthew
In a prominent position on the W side of the minor road through Dyffryn.
II Swiss Gables
Just N of the Church of St Matthew on the W side of the minor road through Dyffryn.
II Howel Gwyn memorial in churchyard of Church of St Matthew
In a prominent position in the churchyard of the Church of Saint Matthew, just S of the porch and W of the lychgate.
II Lychgate to churchyard of Church of St Matthew
On the E side of the churchyard of the Church of St Matthew.
II Cwm Clydach Dam (partly in Dyffryn Clydach community)
Spanning Cwm Clydach approximately 950m N of Neath Abbey railway viaduct and some 120m NE of Glynfelin Farm.
II Cwm Clydach Dam (partly in Blaenhonddan community)
Spanning Cwm Clydach approximately 950m N of Neath Abbey railway viaduct and some 120m NE of Glynfelin Farm.
II Pensianel Pigsty
In an overgrown site some 90m NE of the house at Darren Farm and approximately 170m S of Darren Court.

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Former icehouse to Dyffryn House

A Grade II Listed Building in Dyffryn Clydach, Neath Port Talbot