Strathmiglo, Pitlour House, Ice House is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 May 2014. Ice house.

Strathmiglo, Pitlour House, Ice House

WRENN ID
muffled-doorway-oak
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 May 2014
Type
Ice house
OS grid reference
NO 208 112
Coordinates
56.28697, -3.28098
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Pitlour House Ice House, built by surveyor Alex Martin and mason William Simson between 1825 and 1826, is a two-chambered semi-subterranean structure. The front elevation features sloping walls that flank the doorway. The outer compartment has a tunnel-vaulted design, while the inner compartment is conical in shape. The entrance walls are made of squared rubble with ashlar dressings around the doorway. This ice house is set into the sloping wooded ground to the northwest of Pitlour House.

Local climate

Strathmiglo, Pitlour House, Ice House receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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