What is recorded here

Half a mile from the castle kitchens stands a squat stone drum built in 1669 to catch winter snow and hold it through summer. It is an ice house, not a tower, and its thick walls were designed to keep heat out while men carried blocks of frozen water uphill for the kitchen. The build date is recorded in the national register, but the labour is not named. Someone hauled snow, packed it, and trusted stone to remember cold long after the winter that made it had gone.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Glamis Castle, Ice House as Icehouse (17th Century) (1669). 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.

Glamis Castle, Ice House was built in the 17th century, specifically in 1669, and is associated with the Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne, who held Glamis Castle for centuries. It is important as part of the historic estate of Glamis Castle, a significant Scottish seat linked to Scottish history and literature, including connections to Shakespeare's Macbeth.

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