16, 18, 20, 22 Culbert Street, Portsoy is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Terrace.
16, 18, 20, 22 Culbert Street, Portsoy
- WRENN ID
- gilded-brick-pearl
- 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
- Terrace
- OS grid reference
- NJ 589 661
- Coordinates
- 57.68343, -2.69028
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
16, 18, 20, and 22 Culbert Street in Portsoy is a mid-18th century terrace building that stands two stories tall with a dormerless attic. The structure is made of heavily pointed rubble with painted ashlar margins. The front on Culbert Street features four entrances that are irregularly spaced, including a pend, and there is a corniced ashlar doorpiece at No 20. The first floor has four windows that are regularly spaced.
No 22 includes a 1930s corner shop with an angled window on the east gable. There is a first-floor entry with a flanking window on the west gable, accessed by a masonry forestair, and a modern wing at the rear. The east gable facing Burnside has a pair of small attic lights. The windows throughout the building have 4, 9, and 12 panes and are made of timber sash and case. The building features coped end stacks with moulded cornices and has a slate roof, along with 19th-century rooflights.
Local climate
16, 18, 20, 22 Culbert 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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