Ice House, Arniston House is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 November 1998. Ice house.

Ice House, Arniston House

WRENN ID
scarred-banister-barley
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Midlothian
Constituency
Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 November 1998
Type
Ice house
OS grid reference
NT 324 590
Coordinates
55.81957, -3.07927
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The ice house at Arniston House, dated 1816, is a round-arched structure facing north and set into a hillside. It is built from random rubble with droved dressings. The central doorway features a tooled lintel inscribed with "1816," while to the left of the doorway is a tooled stone that reads "TP" and displays an anchor. The bottom half of the doorway is filled with a stone slab. Inside, the ice house has a barrel-vaulted ceiling, a dirt floor, and walls clad in brick, with a stone ceiling above.

Local climate

Ice House, Arniston House 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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