Ice House, Buchanan Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 September 1979. Icehouse. 1 related planning application.
Ice House, Buchanan Castle
- WRENN ID
- silver-beam-merlin
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
- Constituency
- Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 September 1979
- Type
- Icehouse
- Address
- Ice House, Buchanan Castle, G63 0HY
- OS grid reference
- NS 447 893
- Coordinates
- 56.07138, -4.49585
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Ice House at Buchanan Castle, likely built in the early 19th century, is located some distance northwest of the castle itself. This structure is set into a small natural hill and is primarily covered with turf. The only visible masonry is on the north entrance front, which features a random rubble wall with a low central doorway. Inside, the walls are made of narrow red brick. The doorway opens into a passageway that has a segmentally arched roof. At the end of the passage, there is a circular chamber topped with a shallow domed brick roof. Below the passage level, there is a deep circular pit lined with brick, designed for storing ice.
This icehouse is a notable example of the building stock associated with a large 19th century country estate and is in excellent condition for its age and design. The grounds of Buchanan Castle are included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland.
Local climate
Ice House, Buchanan Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,630 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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