Hillhead Icehouse is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 October 1984.
Hillhead Icehouse
- WRENN ID
- final-cobble-meadow
- 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 578 138
- Coordinates
- 56.31553, -2.68243
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Hillhead Icehouse is probably an 18th-century structure, a small square vaulted chamber designed for ice storage. It features a vent at the top and a tunnel entrance leading to a circular sunken area with steps. The icehouse is constructed of rubble masonry.
Local climate
Hillhead Icehouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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