Tugnet is the largest surviving ice house in the United Kingdom.

[1] The building consists of three long brick-vaulted chambers, each divided into two compartments,[2] with square three-gabled elevations at either end and curving turf roofs.

[3] The ice house was a part of the Tugnet salmon-fishing station that was built up in the late 18th century by the Gordon Estate, which employed some 150 people.

[1] Fish would be caught in nets strung across the mouth of the river,[1] cleaned and processed, and then packed in ice to be transported to market in London by a fleet of boats.

[3] In 1981, it was converted into a museum about local wildlife and the historic salmon fishing and boat building industries.