What is recorded here

Picton Castle, Icehouse, Slebech stands in Pembrokeshire as a Post Medieval icehouse tied to the castle estate. It may have stored ice through summer for kitchens and cellars, turning winter into a usable resource. The exact chamber and its fate are not clear, but the name preserves a practical function: keeping cold alive when heat surrounded it.

The National Monuments Record of Wales records Picton Castle, Icehouse, Slebech 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.

Picton Castle, Icehouse, Slebech is associated with the Picton family, who held the estate in Pembrokeshire, Wales, during the Post Medieval period, particularly from the 16th to 18th centuries. The icehouse is remembered as part of the domestic infrastructure of a prominent local gentry family, reflecting the lifestyle and resource management of Welsh landowners during that era.

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