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Gyrn Castle Icehouse, Llanasa

Icehouse

What is recorded here

Gyrn Castle Icehouse stands in Llanasa, Flintshire, a Post Medieval structure built to capture winter and sell it back in summer. It is not a castle chamber or a domestic kitchen but a separate machine for preserving life against heat. The castle could take the icehouse for granted because the icehouse existed to make the castle comfortable.
The National Monuments Record of Wales records Gyrn Castle Icehouse, Llanasa as Icehouse from the Post Medieval period. The saved point comes from the official national record. Inclusion does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Gyrn Castle Icehouse, Llanasa, was built in the Post Medieval period, likely as part of a larger estate or manor associated with a local landowning family. It is remembered as an example of domestic infrastructure used for food preservation in early modern Wales.

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