Mountquhanie Icehouse is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 October 1984.
Mountquhanie Icehouse
- WRENN ID
- south-zinc-root
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1984
- OS grid reference
- NO 345 212
- Coordinates
- 56.37892, -3.06142
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Mountquhanie Icehouse is an early 19th century structure built of whin rubble. It consists of an entrance tunnel leading to a vaulted chamber. See Central and N Fife, page 17, for additional details.
Local climate
Mountquhanie Icehouse receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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