14 The Square, Portsoy is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. 1 related planning application.

14 The Square, Portsoy

WRENN ID
wild-chancel-aspen
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 February 1972
Address
14 The Square, Portsoy, AB45 2NX
OS grid reference
NJ 588 661
Coordinates
57.68342, -2.69149
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Morvern, located at 13 The Square in Portsoy, is an early to mid-19th century two-storey and attic building that forms part of a five-bay terrace. The structure is constructed of heavily pointed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings and margins. It features a regular frontage with doorways situated in the second and fourth bays, with the fourth bay serving as a shop that has small flanking windows. The ground floor has a chamfered angle that addresses both The Square and South High Street. The first floor has regular four-bay fenestration, while the outer bays feature early 20th-century piended and slate-hung dormers. The windows are mainly two-pane timber sash and case glazing, with plate glass used for the shop windows. The building has coped end stacks, flat skews, and a slate roof.

Local climate

14 The Square, 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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