Ice House, Balmoral Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 2010. Ice house.

Ice House, Balmoral Castle

WRENN ID
heavy-footing-starling
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Cairngorms National Park
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 March 2010
Type
Ice house
OS grid reference
NO 255 950
Coordinates
57.04067, -3.22803
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Ice House at Balmoral Castle was built by J & W Smith in 1849. It is located on a bank near the back drive to the castle. The entrance elevation above ground is made of coursed, squared granite and features a waved wallhead with an ashlar coping. The entrance has a simple boarded door, and the bank rises behind and to the sides of the structure.

Local climate

Ice House, Balmoral Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 88 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 68 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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