What is recorded here

Culzean Castle Policies, Icehouse is a path in South Ayrshire, Scotland, recorded without a date or owner. The exact point is known to the nearest metre, yet the name suggests a hidden chamber where water waited for heat to leave it. A person may have walked that path only to carry cold into a castle room, making distance disappear in a single jug of ice. The icehouse itself has not emerged, but the path still points toward the place where heat was defeated.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Culzean Castle Policies, Icehouse as Path (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Culzean Castle, including its policies and icehouse, was built in the late 18th and early 19th centuries by the Kennedy family, specifically for Alexander, 10th Earl of Cassilis. The castle is important as a notable example of Scottish Gothic Revival architecture and as a historic seat of one of Ayrshire's most influential noble families.

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