Icehouse, Lochinch Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972.
Icehouse, Lochinch Castle
- WRENN ID
- solemn-pilaster-violet
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1972
- OS grid reference
- NX 103 629
- Coordinates
- 54.92512, -4.96071
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a later 19th-century ice house situated near Ice Cottage on the Lochinch Heritage Estate. The ice house is constructed of rubble and brick and has a shallow domed form. The north elevation features an advanced, square-headed entrance, which is now blocked. A datestone in the blocking reads "June 1931." The roof is covered in foliage. The interior was not inspected in 1999. The ice house is shown on Ordnance Survey maps, first appearing in 1896. Ice Cottage is not included in the listing. Other listed buildings on the estate encompass Balker Farmhouse, Balker Lodge, Black Loch Boathouse, Black Stables Cottage, Canal Cottage, Castle Kennedy, Castle Kennedy Bridge, Castle Kennedy gatepiers, gates and boundary walls, Castle Kennedy Lodge, Castle Kennedy Walled Garden, East Lodge, Garden Cottage, Kennels, Kennel's House, Kitchen Garden, Lochinch Castle, Lochinch Stable Court, Main Lodge, Main Lodge gatepiers, gates and boundary walls, Old Parish Church, Old Parish Church graveyard, three sundials, and White Loch Boathouse.
Local climate
Icehouse, Lochinch Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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