Ice-House, Thornton is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 June 1998. Ice house.
Ice-House, Thornton
- WRENN ID
- idle-gable-winter
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 June 1998
- Type
- Ice house
- OS grid reference
- NT 293 615
- Coordinates
- 55.84205, -3.12921
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The ice house at Thornton dates from the mid-19th century and features a segmental-arched design. It is constructed from stugged coursed sandstone with stugged dressings. The doorways are topped with a tooled sandstone arch, and the structure has tooled coping. The grass roof slopes down to ground level on the southeast side and meets a low rubble wall on the northwest side. There are boarded timber doors located at the center of the northeast and southwest elevations. Inside, there is a rectangular well with a cement surround, which has been altered.
Local climate
Ice-House, Thornton sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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