Ice House, Ballochmyle House is a Grade C listed building in the East Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 October 2006. Ice house.

Ice House, Ballochmyle House

WRENN ID
hollow-minaret-dawn
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Ayrshire
Constituency
Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP: Lillian Jones (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 October 2006
Type
Ice house
OS grid reference
NS 520 262
Coordinates
55.50733, -4.34374
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Ice House at Ballochmyle House is likely from the later 18th century. It features an arched entrance and a low, narrow barrel-vaulted tunnel that leads to a deep, elliptical chamber. The structure is made of fine, tooled ashlar, while the walls of the tunnel are constructed from rubble. The entrance arch is supported by large masonry quoins. The building is oriented to the northwest, with the dome and tunnel roof concealed by vegetation.

Local climate

Ice House, Ballochmyle 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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