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Latitude: 55.8737 / 55°52'25"N
Longitude: -3.1391 / 3°8'20"W
OS Eastings: 328820
OS Northings: 665090
OS Grid: NT288650
Mapcode National: GBR 60JJ.58
Mapcode Global: WH6T0.RMCH
Plus Code: 9C7RVVF6+F8
Entry Name: Game Larder and Ice House, Mavisbank House
Listing Name: Game Larder and Ice House, Mavisbank House, Lasswade
Listing Date: 22 January 1971
Last Amended: 19 September 2019
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 390857
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44164
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200390857
Location: Lasswade
County: Midlothian
Electoral Ward: Midlothian West
Parish: Lasswade
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: 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.
Statement of Special Interest:
Formerly used for hanging game, the larder, which is located above the ice house, is situated on the wooded ridge between the main house and the dairy, for optimum shade and ventilation.
A-group with Mavisbank House, Dairy, Doocot, Gazebo, Walled Gardens, Ice House and East Lodge (Kevock Road, Lasswade).
Statutory address and listed building record revised in 2019. Previously listed as 'Mavisbank House, Game Larder'.
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