Ice-House, Bowhill is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 June 2003. Icehouse.
Ice-House, Bowhill
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-passage-cream
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 June 2003
- Type
- Icehouse
- OS grid reference
- NT 430 278
- Coordinates
- 55.54115, -2.90379
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The ice house at Bowhill dates from the early 19th century. It features a vaulted tunnel that provides access to a domed underground compartment, with the dome itself covered by earth. The structure is made of brick, ashlar, and rubble. It has a broad doorway framed with ashlar quoins and a timber door. Inside, there is a short entrance passage that has a brick roof, leading to another ashlar doorway that opens into the ice chamber.
Local climate
Ice-House, Bowhill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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