Maybe I'll try this next year!

I found another interesting Victorian solution in "Lee's Priceless Recipes". Just think, if I had done this a few months ago my pipes wouldn't have frozen this month and would be doing the Happy Dance and not singing the Plumbing Blues

Cellars, Freezing In.- Paste the wall and ceiling over with 4 or 5 thicknesses of newspapers, make a curtain of the same material, paste over the window at the top of the cellar; paste the papers to the base joist overhead, leaving an air space between them and the floor; it is better to use a coarse brown paper; whatever paper is employed sweep down the walls thoroughly, and use a very strong size to hold the paper to the stones; it is not necessary to press the paper down into all the depressions of the wall; every air space beneath it is an additional defense against the cold.