3 Church Street, Portsoy is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. House.
3 Church Street, Portsoy
- WRENN ID
- patient-thatch-gold
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NJ 590 659
- Coordinates
- 57.68167, -2.68819
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building at 3 Church Street in Portsoy dates from around 1800 and is a single storey and attic house with three bays. The front is made of squared rubble with large blocks and features an east gable facing Church Street, accented by contrasting painted courses. The rear is rendered rubble, and there are contrasting painted ashlar margins. The central entrance has a panelled front door topped with a letterbox fanlight and painted jambs. The windows are timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing, and there are later 19th century canted wallhead dormers in the outer bays featuring 2-and 6-pane glazing.
The house has coped end stacks, flat skews, and a slate roof, along with a cast-iron rooflight. There is a small single storey, 2-bay rubble wing at the west gable, which includes a door and window, also with a slate roof.
Local climate
3 Church 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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