Icehouse, Craigrothie House is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 August 1972. House, icehouse, screen wall.

Icehouse, Craigrothie House

WRENN ID
upper-casement-rain
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 August 1972
Type
House, icehouse, screen wall
OS grid reference
NO 381 111
Coordinates
56.28836, -3.00054
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The icehouse at Craigrothie House is an 18th-century structure that is circular and built from rubble. It features an upper section made of ashlar, which has been converted into a garage. An early 19th-century addition includes a screen wall with an up-curved parapet.

Local climate

Icehouse, Craigrothie House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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