Ice House, Harbour Road, Brora is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 December 1979. Ice house.

Ice House, Harbour Road, Brora

WRENN ID
empty-keep-myrtle
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 December 1979
Type
Ice house
OS grid reference
NC 907 039
Coordinates
58.01127, -3.85042
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The ice house located on Harbour Road in Brora dates back to the early 19th century and features a large vaulted single chamber. It is built into the side of a slope using coursed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. The structure faces north and has a wide curved and coped frontage that extends to projecting sloping wing walls. There is a paired centre door and a window, although the window is currently blocked.

Inside, there is a small ante-chamber and a double checked entrance to the ice house, which has doors that open both internally and externally.

Local climate

Ice House, Harbour Road, Brora receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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