Ice House, Dumfries House is a Grade B listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 November 1979. Icehouse.

Ice House, Dumfries House

WRENN ID
other-buttress-summer
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Ayrshire
Constituency
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
6 November 1979
Type
Icehouse
OS grid reference
NS 542 204
Coordinates
55.45619, -4.30668
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Ice House at Dumfries House is a circular stone building featuring a gothic doorway with a pediment. It likely dates from the 19th century and serves as a superstructure above an earlier subterranean domed compartment.

Local climate

Ice House, Dumfries House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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