Game Larder and Ice House, Mavisbank House is a Grade B listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971. Ice house.
Game Larder and Ice House, Mavisbank House
- WRENN ID
- ruined-eave-hyssop
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1971
- Type
- Ice house
- OS grid reference
- NT 288 650
- Coordinates
- 55.87369, -3.13916
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Game Larder and Ice House at Mavisbank House is a single-storey structure built in the later 19th century, featuring a square plan. It is constructed from droved cream sandstone ashlar and leads to an associated ice house below, which is lined with brick and stone. The building originally had a grey slated roof with overhanging eaves, but this roof was removed around 2011.
Notable architectural features include cast iron under floor ventilator grilles, chamfered angles that transition to square at the eaves, hood moulded openings, and adjustable timber louvres. The northeast elevation has a doorway with louvres in the upper panel, while there are single louvred openings in the southeast, southwest, and northwest elevations.
Inside, there is a stone slab floor and battens that would have supported a coved plaster ceiling, although the plaster is now missing. A hole in the center of the floor leads down to the ice house.
Local climate
Game Larder and Ice House, Mavisbank House receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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