Monument record MDO573 - Ice house at Duntish Court, Buckland Newton

Ice house at Duntish Court, possibly eighteenth century. A false front, having a double arched entrance, was built on to the west side, perhaps to make it into a garden feature. Later the icehouse was made into a grotto.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 52 (Monograph). SDO146.

'To the S. of the S. pavilion is an 18th-century Grotto of rubble and flint.'

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

'Duntish Court (Castle Hill), Buckland Newton ST 692068. A false front, having a double arched entrance, was built on to the west side, perhaps to make it into a garden feature. Later the icehouse was made into a grotto. To the east of this icehouse is a long pond, now overgrown.'

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