Finchy Shiel And Ice House is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 March 2001. Fishing shiel.

Finchy Shiel And Ice House

WRENN ID
broken-forge-wax
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 March 2001
Type
Fishing shiel
OS grid reference
NT 943 522
Coordinates
55.76347, -2.09198
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Finchy Shiel and Ice House is likely from the mid-19th century, with later additions and alterations. It is a single-storey building with an attic and a rectangular plan, featuring two bays and single-storey additions at the rear. The structure is made of harled sandstone rubble, which is partially exposed, and the wallhead has been heightened with brick and harling. There is a fish house to the east.

On the south elevation, there is a later steel door to the left and a steel shuttered window to the right. The east side elevation has a steel shuttered window at ground level to the left and another steel shuttered window above it. A garage door is found in a single-storey lean-to addition on the outer right.

The north elevation has single-storey additions that project at ground level. The west side elevation features a gabled design with a pointed projection centered at the ground, and a single-storey mono-pitched addition projects to the outer left. There are Velux rooflights on the south side, and the roof is steeply pitched with purple slate, dating to around 1950. The east side has a harled apex stack and a circular can.

Inside, the space is a fairly plain storage area. The fish house is constructed of sandstone rubble, with a square-headed door centered in a segmental-arched entrance on the south elevation.

Local climate

Finchy Shiel And Ice House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% 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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