Ice House, Scrabster is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. Icehouse, cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Ice House, Scrabster

WRENN ID
dusk-threshold-fern
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 November 1984
Type
Icehouse, cottage
Address
Ice House, Scrabster, KW14 7UJ
OS grid reference
ND 101 704
Coordinates
58.61263, -3.54749
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Ice House at Scrabster is an earlier 19th century icehouse complex, which includes a lean-to net house that has been altered. The icehouse itself is constructed from rubble and features a gabled front with a later inserted window. It is set back into the slope at the rear and has an ice chute. Inside, there is a barrel vaulted ceiling, and the roof is covered with slate.

Adjacent to the icehouse is a cottage that is set back against the wall. This single-storey, three-bay cottage is also built from rubble and has been lime-washed. It has a gabled slate roof and a chimney stack at one end.

Local climate

Ice House, Scrabster sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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