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Mavisbank Game Larder

Mavisbank Policies, Loanhed, Midlothian.

Square meat store building above Egg-shaped subterranean ice chamber accessed by tunnel from wooded bank.

Game Larder - Later 19th century. Single storey, square plan game larder leading to associated brick and stone lined ice house below. Droved cream sandstone ashlar. Formerly grey slated roof with overhanging eaves (roof removed around 2011). Cast iron under floor ventilator grilles; chamfered angles swept to square at eaves; hood moulded openings; adjustable timber louvres. Doorway in northeast elevation, with louvres to upper panel. Single louvred opening in southeast, southwest and northwest elevations. Interior: stone slab floor; battens for coved plaster ceiling (plaster missing); hole to centre of floor leading to ice house. [Canmore]

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: Previously unidentified chamber below surface pavilion identified during assessment of designed landscape by Thomas Addyman, 2004.

Surveyed by Grampian Speleological Group for Historic Environment Scotland, 2010 & 2011.