The Boyne Hotel, 2 North High Street, Portsoy is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Hotel. 3 related planning applications.

The Boyne Hotel, 2 North High Street, Portsoy

WRENN ID
sharp-tallow-bittern
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 February 1972
Type
Hotel
Address
The Boyne Hotel, 2 North High Street, Portsoy, AB45 2PA
OS grid reference
NJ 588 661
Coordinates
57.68346, -2.6911
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Boyne Hotel, located at 2 North High Street in Portsoy, is a building from the mid to late 18th century that has undergone significant alterations. Originally designed as a two-storey structure with an attic, it featured three bays and an advanced central bay. The building has since been raised to a full three storeys and now has a steeply pitched modern mansard roof. The exterior is constructed of heavily pointed rubble with painted ashlar margins.

The central entrance is highlighted by a lugged, moulded, and corniced doorpiece. The windows are arranged regularly, with the attic window in the centre gable being enlarged and featuring rendered margins, flanked by mansard dormers that sit under shallow catslide roofs. The glazing consists of 12-pane timber sash and case windows.

The building has a return rubble gable facing Culbert Street, with coped end stacks and a slate roof. The rear of the building has been much altered, including a rear extension.

Local climate

The Boyne Hotel, 2 North High 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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