Icehouse, Alva Woodland Park is a Grade B listed building in the Clackmannanshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 May 2008. Icehouse.
Icehouse, Alva Woodland Park
- WRENN ID
- still-tracery-amber
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Clackmannanshire
- Constituency
- Alloa and Grangemouth MP: Brian Leishman (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 May 2008
- Type
- Icehouse
- OS grid reference
- NS 899 974
- Coordinates
- 56.15716, -3.77304
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The icehouse at Alva Woodland Park, dating from around 1830, is a rare seven-sided structure discreetly located on a bank that slopes steeply to the south. It features a gated entrance on the west side that leads to a low access tunnel, approximately 4 feet high, which connects to a gallery with a higher ceiling and a chamber at right angles. The building is constructed from random whin rubble with sandstone dressings and red brick.
Inside, the seven-sided gallery, which encompasses the chamber, has a floor made of stone slabs and a brick-vaulted ceiling with an access hatch. The walls are built of snecked rubble and include six brick-lined, voussoired segmentally-arched niches with stone shelves. A further door leads to a deep brick-vaulted ice chamber, which has an iron-lined access hatch.
Local climate
Icehouse, Alva Woodland Park sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 66 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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