Ice House, Dunrobin Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 December 1979.

Ice House, Dunrobin Castle

WRENN ID
dark-keystone-crag
Grade
C
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
NC 849 008
Coordinates
57.9818, -3.94754
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a probably later 18th century ice house, a domestic structure located within the grounds of Dunrobin Castle. The ice house consists of a single, conical chamber topped with a turf roof. An entrance porch built of gabled, coursed rubble features a round-headed doorway. The structure is referenced in A Fenton and B Walker’s The Rural Architecture of Scotland (1981), page 12, figure 5.

Local climate

Ice House, Dunrobin Castle 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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