Ice House, Littleferry is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 December 1979.
Ice House, Littleferry
- WRENN ID
- vast-bronze-merlin
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1979
- OS grid reference
- NH 805 956
- Coordinates
- 57.93442, -4.0186
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century ice house, a large, single-chambered vaulted structure built with rubble and dressed with tooled rubble. It was likely a commercial ice house. It features a wide, central door on its north-facing, coped, rounded gable, with the sides projecting slightly forward as wings. The ice house is turf-covered and includes a rear ice chute. Its design is reminiscent of ice houses at Brora and Helmsdale. A small timber shed has been erected on top of the structure. The statutory address is Littleferry Ice House.
Local climate
Ice House, Littleferry receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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