Icehouse, Rosneath Castle Policies is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 April 1995. Ice house.
Icehouse, Rosneath Castle Policies
- WRENN ID
- lesser-corner-sienna
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1995
- Type
- Ice house
- OS grid reference
- NS 265 820
- Coordinates
- 55.99993, -4.78296
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The icehouse at Rosneath Castle Policies dates from the early 19th century and is built into a soil bank to the east of Parkhead. It features a canted front with a soil cover on top. The structure is constructed from large droved ashlar blocks and has ashlar coping. There is a low square door at the center, with the jambs reset for the door and cast-iron hinges located to the left.
Inside, the back wall is coved and the lower level is lined with red brick, while the upper level is made of whinstone and partially harled.
Local climate
Icehouse, Rosneath Castle Policies sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,620 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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