What is recorded here

Stobo Castle, Ice-house is an unassigned-period icehouse in the Scottish Borders, recorded without a date or visible function. It may have stored river ice for the castle kitchens, forcing people to carry heavy blocks through summer heat. The missing date does not diminish the place; it withholds the exact year when labour and hunger first met in that cold dark.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Stobo Castle, Ice-house as Icehouse (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Stobo Castle, Ice-house is associated with Stobo Castle, a 16th-century Scottish tower house located in the Borders region. The ice-house would have been used to store ice for preserving food and was an essential part of the castle's domestic infrastructure.

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