36, 38 South High Street, Portsoy is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Cottage.
36, 38 South High Street, Portsoy
- WRENN ID
- patient-pediment-heron
- 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
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NJ 588 660
- Coordinates
- 57.68271, -2.69149
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
36 and 38 South High Street in Portsoy is a cottage dating from around 1800. It is a single-storey building with an attic and features three bays. The exterior is harled with painted ashlar margins. The central entrance has a letterbox fanlight above it. The outer bays have late 19th-century canted wallhead dormers. The ground floor windows are fitted with 4-pane timber sash and case glazing, while the dormers have modern 2-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof has flat skews with wedge skewputts, harled end stacks, and is covered with slate, featuring a modern Velux rooflight.
Local climate
36, 38 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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