Icehouse, Inveraray Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Ice house.

Icehouse, Inveraray Castle

WRENN ID
standing-roof-foxglove
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1971
Type
Ice house
OS grid reference
NN 092 093
Coordinates
56.23806, -5.07944
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The icehouse at Inveraray Castle, built around 1785 by Robert Mylne, is a circular structure made of rubble. It features a domed roof and is lined with brick on the inside. The floor is made of earth, and access is gained through a passage.

Local climate

Icehouse, Inveraray Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,950 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 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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