Clifton, 3 Wood Street, Portsoy is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 February 1982. House.
Clifton, 3 Wood Street, Portsoy
- WRENN ID
- unlit-screen-torch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1982
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NJ 591 663
- Coordinates
- 57.68522, -2.68718
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Clifton, located at 3 Wood Street in Portsoy, is a house built between 1860 and 1870. It is a two-storey, three-bay structure featuring a frontage made of tooled, coursed rubble with recessed pointing and tooled ashlar dressings. The house has a central door, and each outer bay is topped with a gabled dormer that breaks the wallhead. The windows are modern two-pane metal frames with upper lights. The property has coped end stacks and a slate roof with pottery ridge tiles. There is a lean-to garage at the eastern gable, along with a modern sunroom and other extensions or additions at the rear.
Local climate
Clifton, 3 Wood 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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