What is recorded here

Crathes Castle Policies holds icehouses built between 1561 and 1899, not an aqueduct as the national record mistakenly claims. The false label sticks like wet cloth, forcing every person to correct it before they can picture the real chambers. That friction is the point. The place resists forgetting by refusing to be remembered cleanly, and the resistance keeps its true shape alive in the mind.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Crathes Castle Policies as Aqueduct (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.

The historic-place record does not grant public access. Check current conditions and ownership before entering land or a building.