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
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1980
- Type
- Icehouse
- OS grid reference
- NO 388 476
- Coordinates
- 56.61635, -2.99728
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Ice House at Glamis Castle was rebuilt in 1866, incorporating elements from the late 17th century. It is located by the Glamis Burn and features a tunnel that leads to a domed underground chamber. The structure is made of brick, ashlar, and rubble. It has a pointed-arch doorway that is 5 feet high and 3 feet wide, with heavy masonry voussoirs and a dressed keystone. The entrance passage measures 14 feet long, 5 feet 9 inches wide, and 7 feet 4 inches high, with rubble walls and a stone slab roof; the first slab is incised with the letter 'P'. The ovate chamber has a diameter of 18 feet at its widest point and is 23 feet deep from the center of the brick dome, which springs from the ashlar floor level. The tunnel access to the domed chamber may date back to the late 18th century.
Local climate
Ice House, Glamis Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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