Known locally as `The Folly` , this building is actually the remains of an ice house used by the inhabitants of the now-demolished Shipley Hall.
For anyone who doesn`t know, an ice house was a stone building used in those pre-fridge days to keep food fresh.
There are the remains of many ice houses dotted around the country. This one is unusual in that it was built from `clinkers`, waste from a foundry which has taken the form of a stony residue.
I am told there is a house built from the same material somewhere in the area - West Hallam I think - and in Heanor there is a low wall alongside a tarmac footpath running from Ilkeston Road to William Gregg Leisure Centre along the edge of Heanor Memorial Park which I personally believe is also made of clinkers.
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