Ice-House, Auchincruive is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2000. Ice house.
Ice-House, Auchincruive
- WRENN ID
- outer-rotunda-rye
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 2000
- Type
- Ice house
- OS grid reference
- NS 385 236
- Coordinates
- 55.47978, -4.55553
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The ice house at Auchincruive dates from the mid-19th century and features a single chamber with a rectangular plan. It has a vaulted ceiling at ground level, which is partly collapsed. There is also a small rectangular enclosure attached to it, and the enclosing walls are still standing.
Local climate
Ice-House, Auchincruive sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,520 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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