Corf Warehouse, Shorehead, Portsoy is a Grade A listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Warehouse.
Corf Warehouse, Shorehead, Portsoy
- WRENN ID
- over-postern-fern
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1972
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- Corf Warehouse, Shorehead, Portsoy, AB45 2PB
- OS grid reference
- NJ 588 663
- Coordinates
- 57.68491, -2.69169
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Corf Warehouse, located at Shorehead in Portsoy, was designed by John Adam in 1765. This narrow rectangular granary and warehouse stands four stories tall and features seven bays, facing the Old Harbour. The ground floor is constructed of random rubble masonry, while the upper levels are finished with cherry-pointed (galletted) rubble and tooled ashlar dressings.
The front elevation is symmetrical, showcasing five wide entrances on the ground floor, each with plank doors. The first floor has single windows in the second and sixth bays, while the second and third floors feature windows grouped in threes in the outer bays. The rear elevation is also symmetrical, with three entrances on the first floor, which is raised due to the sloping site, and a regular seven-bay arrangement of windows on the upper floors. There are single windows on the third and fourth floors in the north and south return gables, although the latter are blocked. The building has modern glazing and a piended slate roof.
Local climate
Corf Warehouse, 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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