Church Of Scotland Manse, 4 Seafield Terrace, Portsoy is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Manse. 2 related planning applications.
Church Of Scotland Manse, 4 Seafield Terrace, Portsoy
- WRENN ID
- other-transept-sable
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1972
- Type
- Manse
- Address
- Church Of Scotland Manse, 4 Seafield Terrace, Portsoy, AB45 2QB
- OS grid reference
- NJ 586 658
- Coordinates
- 57.68097, -2.69453
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Church of Scotland Manse, located at 4 Seafield Terrace in Portsoy, was built in 1844 with additions made around 1870. This two-storey, three-bay house features pinned tooled rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. The central entrance is concealed by a gabled porch, which was added around 1870. This porch has a barge-boarded timber design with Gothic details, a side entrance, and pointed-arch windows with decorative lead glazing. To the left (east), there is a canted window, also added around 1870, which has a parapet. The ground floor windows have plate glass glazing, while the first floor features symmetrical timber sash and case windows with 12 panes. The house has coped end stacks, flat skews, and a slate roof.
The enclosing walls consist of a low coped wall that connects with the church, along with a high rubble wall on the east and north sides. The pedestrian entrance is flanked by bullfaced rubble piers that match the church's gatepiers, and it features a similar cast-iron gate.
Local climate
Church Of Scotland Manse, 4 Seafield Terrace, 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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