Icehouse, Hermitage Of Braid, Braid Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1993. Ice house.

Icehouse, Hermitage Of Braid, Braid Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
drifting-hinge-jackdaw
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 1993
Type
Ice house
OS grid reference
NT 250 702
Coordinates
55.91944, -3.2008
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The icehouse at the Hermitage of Braid, located on Braid Road in Edinburgh, dates back to the 18th century. This subterranean structure is built from rubble and is situated to the south of the Hermitage of Braid, just above the Braid Burn, with a drainage channel connecting the two. It features a small pointed-arch doorway with rugged dressings and a barred pointed-arch gate leading into the entrance passage. Inside, there is a circular well topped with a brick-arched ceiling.

Local climate

Icehouse, Hermitage Of Braid, Braid Road, Edinburgh 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 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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