Icehouse, Valleyfield House is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 June 1992. Ice house.
Icehouse, Valleyfield House
- WRENN ID
- floating-storey-ivy
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1992
- Type
- Ice house
- OS grid reference
- NT 004 873
- Coordinates
- 56.06838, -3.6004
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The icehouse at Valleyfield House is an egg-shaped structure that is partially collapsed. It is situated on a steep slope of an embankment on the south side of the Bluther Burn, directly opposite a walled flower garden.
Local climate
Icehouse, Valleyfield House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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