Ice House, Gosford Estates is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971.
Ice House, Gosford Estates
- WRENN ID
- grey-ashlar-stoat
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1971
- OS grid reference
- NT 455 787
- Coordinates
- 55.99874, -2.8748
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century ice house situated within an earthen mound and featuring an arcaded grotto ante-chamber. The structure is built from random rubble with decorative rufa and pebble rockwork, rising to a gable with an arcade. A tall, round-headed arch is flanked by two narrower arches, all with pebble surrounds, tufa columns, and bases. Inside the grotto, there are benches. A wooden door provides access to the ice chamber, fitted with large iron hinges. A pedestal surmounts the mound. The ice house's rustic tufa rockwork is comparable to that found on a curling house and a separate grotto located at Aberlady Manse. It also shares similarities with the shell grotto at Newhailes, which was designed earlier and achieves a similar effect. It forms an A-group with several other buildings within the Gosford Estate—see notes for Gosford House for further details.
Local climate
Ice House, Gosford Estates receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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