31 Low Street, Portsoy is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. House. 3 related planning applications.
31 Low Street, Portsoy
- WRENN ID
- vacant-beam-thyme
- 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
- 31 Low Street, Portsoy, AB45 2QQ
- OS grid reference
- NJ 589 662
- Coordinates
- 57.68435, -2.69072
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
31 Low Street in Portsoy is a tall, three-storey house with a dormerless attic, built in the early to mid-18th century. The house has a symmetrical three-bay design and is harled with contrasting painted margins. The main entrance, located at the front on Low Street, features a flush-panelled and part-glazed door, while there is an entry to number 33 at the rear.
On the north return gable facing Shorehead, there are paired ground floor windows flanking a central mural barometer case, with single windows on the first and second floors and a small attic light. The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case. The roof has flat skews with run-off shaped skewputts, renewed copes on the masonry end stacks, and is covered with Welsh slate.
Local climate
31 Low 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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