Icehouse, Raith House is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 November 1971.
Icehouse, Raith House
- WRENN ID
- dusted-basalt-fern
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1971
- OS grid reference
- NT 255 917
- Coordinates
- 56.11306, -3.19945
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Icehouse, Raith House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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