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
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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

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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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