Badminton House Estate. The old Ice House on the estate. Badminton Gloucestershire UK 2013 2010s HOMER SYKES Stock Photography

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Ice houses are buildings used to store ice throughout the year, commonly used prior to the invention of the refrigerator. Some were underground chambers, usually man-made, close to natural sources of winter ice such as freshwater lakes, but many were buildings with various types of insulation. The man made ice house is under this mound thats probably was conceived to look as if it was a Bronze Age burial chamber in Badminton Park,

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