39, 41 South High Street, Portsoy is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. House.
39, 41 South High Street, Portsoy
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-barrel-dust
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- 39, 41 South High Street, Portsoy, AB45 2NT
- OS grid reference
- NJ 588 660
- Coordinates
- 57.68259, -2.69201
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
39 and 41 South High Street in Portsoy is a single storey and attic house, built around 1870-1880, that was originally two separate dwellings. The building features five bays and has a canted angled bay at the southeast corner. It is constructed from dark whinstone tooled rubble, accented with contrasting painted courses and tooled sandstone dressings, and has a harled return gable. The entrance, located in the fourth bay, includes a letterbox fanlight and is flanked by one window on the right and two on the left, all featuring long and short dressings. The canted angle is notably corbelled and includes a window. The outer bays have slated wallhead canted dormers. The ground floor windows are fitted with 2-pane timber sash and case glazing, while the dormers have similar 2- and 4-pane glazing. The building has coped end tooled rubble stacks and a slate roof that includes a Velux rooflight.
Local climate
39, 41 South High Street, Portsoy sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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