Icehouse, Raith House

This is an early 19th-century ice house situated within the Raith Estate. It is a three-stage, circular structure built with coursed rubble stonework, with large ashlar blocks used in its construction. The design incorporates a mutuled, jettied top stage and a crenellated stair-tower. The first stage features a door within a square porch facing east, above which is an ashlar cornice that transitions to a smaller second stage. This second stage has tall, vertical openings and a shallow parapet. A blank stair tower is located to the west. The ice house’s unusual form also includes a game larder in the upper stage. Further details are provided in Gifford’s Fife (1992), page 353.