What is recorded here

Culzean Castle, Ice-house is an 18th Century icehouse in South Ayrshire, Scotland. It is the kind of hidden kitchen where heat and hunger met in the dark, saving food through the long winter months. The castle could afford such cleverness because it wanted to stay alive when the land around it starved.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Culzean Castle, Ice-house as Icehouse (18th Century). 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, Ice-house was built in the 18th century as part of the Culzean Castle estate, which was developed by the Kennedy family, later Earls of Cassillis. The ice-house is important as an example of ancillary architecture associated with a significant Scottish country house and reflects the domestic and technological practices of the period.

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