Ice House, Blairquhan is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 October 2007. Icehouse.

Ice House, Blairquhan

WRENN ID
other-barrel-dale
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP: Elaine Stewart (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 October 2007
Type
Icehouse
OS grid reference
NS 367 054
Coordinates
55.31637, -4.57434
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Ice House at Blairquhan, likely built around 1825, features a barrel-vaulted design. It has a wide rectangular entrance that opens into a barrel-vaulted passageway, which leads to a rectangular inner gateway that opens into an ice chamber with a funnel-shaped floor. The structure is constructed from roughly coursed sandstone, accented with tooled dressings and a moulded architrave around the inner gateway. The roof is grass-covered and slopes down to the ground.

Local climate

Ice House, Blairquhan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,480 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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