Icehouse, Danestone House is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 June 1992. Icehouse.

Icehouse, Danestone House

WRENN ID
drifting-truss-tide
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen North MP: Kirsty Blackman (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 June 1992
Type
Icehouse
OS grid reference
NJ 922 097
Coordinates
57.17863, -2.12991
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The icehouse at Danestone House is an 18th-century structure, believed to have been built in 1726. It features a granite rubble interior and a brick domed roof, constructed into a hillside mound. There are trap doors at the top of the mound for loading ice, although the doors covering the outlet passage have been lost. A tunnel passage leads to an entrance below at ground level to the south, which has a granite ashlar entrance with a pointed arched door and a granite band course. The icehouse is likely a full ovoid in section but has been infilled to ground and entrance level over time. The circular plan measures 9 feet in diameter.

Local climate

Icehouse, Danestone House receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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