Tugnet is reputed to the largest icehouse in Scotland. There are 6 vaulted chambers with cobbled floors and drainage sumps. Ice was collected during the winter and shot into vaults through external chutes.

Icehouses are usually built into the side of a slope to retain cold but here the site is flat and the semi-subterranean, mounded structure excavated, turf covered and brick-lined for coolness.
Built originally for storing the salmon netted in the River Spey, it now houses the Scottish Dolphin Centre.

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