Ice house, The Quarry House, Nuneaton Road, Over Whitacre

Description of this historic site

Ice house of irregular plan with vaulted roof close to the turnpike road with foundations of which it shares one side wall.

Notes about this historic site

1 Ice house, The Quarry House, Nuneaton Road, Over Whitacre.
Beamon and Roaf report a chamber lined with sandstone rubble of irregular plan; exhibiting four ribs to a groin vaulted roof. Shares one side wall with the foundations of the turnpike road. Road turnpiked in 1762 so it may be that the ice house and road were built together in the late 18th or early 19th century.
They comment that there is some debate over whether it is definitely an ice house or used as a game larder

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