What is recorded here

Crathes Castle Policies holds ice-houses built between 1561 and 1899, proving the estate mastered summer heat long before modern plumbing. The site may also contain an aviary and byre, suggesting a busy household where birds sang above working animals. Those chambers still trap cold air, waiting for hands busy enough to hear their purpose.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Crathes Castle Policies as Aviary (period Unassigned)(possible), Byre (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.

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