Icehouse, Aboyne Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 2000. Ice house. 1 related planning application.

Icehouse, Aboyne Castle

WRENN ID
high-bronze-bittern
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 2000
Type
Ice house
OS grid reference
NO 529 993
Coordinates
57.08229, -2.77793
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The icehouse at Aboyne Castle, dated 1827, is a barrel-vaulted structure built from coursed granite. It features a granite arch above the doorway and long and short dressings. The grass roof slopes down to ground level on the east side, and there are remains of a wall enclosure to the east. A tooled lintel above the entrance reads "CEA 1827." The square-plan vaulted chamber can be accessed by steps from the south side.

Local climate

Icehouse, Aboyne Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 73 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 51 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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