7 Shorehead, Portsoy is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. House.
7 Shorehead, Portsoy
- WRENN ID
- unlit-rotunda-larch
- 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
- House
- Address
- 7 Shorehead, Portsoy, AB45 2PB
- OS grid reference
- NJ 588 662
- Coordinates
- 57.68449, -2.69141
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
7 Shorehead is a later 18th century, two-storey house with an irregular three-bay layout and a rear wing. The front is made of rubble, while the east gable and rear wing are harled. There is an additional rubble wing at a higher level that has an entrance from Barbank Street (No 6 Shorehead). The doorway is located in the outer bay, which was originally the center bay but is now a window. The first floor features two windows with 12- and multi-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. The house has coped end masonry stacks, steeply pitched slate roofs, and sandstone ridges.
No 6 Shorehead has late 18th century fabric and is three storeys tall with two bays on the east elevation. It has irregular fenestration and multi-pane glazing. The house also features masonry end stacks, a slate roof, and a sandstone ridge.
Local climate
7 Shorehead, 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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