Clayton Den Ice House is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1984.
Clayton Den Ice House
- WRENN ID
- knotted-moulding-vetch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1984
- OS grid reference
- NO 425 187
- Coordinates
- 56.35783, -2.93083
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an 1862 ice house, built into the slope of the river bank above a rubble terrace, and formerly on the Dairsie parish list. The building, situated above Moonzie Burn, originally belonged to Clayton House. It is built of whin rubble with contrasting ashlar dressings and skews. The west-facing gable features a central doorway with a lintel. A datestone reading 1862, which was also inscribed with "WJP", has been removed.
Local climate
Clayton Den Ice House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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