Ice House, Glamis Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 January 1980. Icehouse.

Ice House, Glamis Castle

WRENN ID: idle-timber-tide
Grade: C
Local Planning Authority: Angus
Country: Scotland
Date first listed: 15 January 1980
Type: Icehouse
Source: Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Rebuilt 1866, incorporating late 17th century fabric. Icehouse sited by Glamis Burn with tunnel access to domed underground chamber. Brick, ashlar and rubble. Pointed-arch doorway (5ft high and 3ft wide) with heavy masonry voussoirs and dressed keystone; entrance passage (14ft long, 5ft 9inches wide, 7ft 4inches high) with rubble walls and stone slab roof, first slab incised with letter 'P'. Ovate chamber 18ft diameter at bulge and 23ft deep from centre of brick dome (see Notes) on ashlar floor level springing.

Tunnel access to domed underground chamber. Possibly late 18th century.

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