Ice House and Harbour Cottage Portmahomack is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. Ice house, store, cottage.

Ice House and Harbour Cottage Portmahomack

WRENN ID
low-wattle-indigo
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
31 August 1983
Type
Ice house, store, cottage
OS grid reference
NH 915 848
Coordinates
57.83985, -3.82793
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Ice House and Harbour Cottage in Portmahomack date back to the early 19th century. The ice house is a single-chambered structure with a vaulted ceiling, facing west, and is built from rubble with a turfed roof. It features a central door that is concealed by a single-storey, two-bay rubble store, which has an entrance on the south side and a window on either side.

Adjoining the west gable of the store is a lower, single-storey cottage, also from the early 19th century, which has three bays. The cottage has a central door flanked by windows on its south front. Both the store and the cottage have coped apex stacks and roofs made of corrugated iron.

Local climate

Ice House and Harbour Cottage Portmahomack receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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