Ice House, Ardgay is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1971.
Ice House, Ardgay
- WRENN ID
- fallen-loft-twilight
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NH 600 906
- Coordinates
- 57.88299, -4.3626
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century ice house built into a hillside. It is a large, vaulted structure constructed from rubble with tooled rubble dressings. The north-facing front has a gabled centre bay, with coped gables and side walls. There is an off-centre door and a turfed roof. An ice chute is located to the rear of the building. Further information can be found in John Hume’s The Industrial Archaeology of Scotland, volume ii, page 290.
Local climate
Ice House, Ardgay sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 72 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 55 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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