New Harbour, Shore Street, Portsoy is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Harbour, sea wall. 1 related planning application.
New Harbour, Shore Street, Portsoy
- WRENN ID
- heavy-forge-hazel
- 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
- Harbour, sea wall
- OS grid reference
- NJ 590 664
- Coordinates
- 57.68604, -2.68872
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
New Harbour, located on Shore Street in Portsoy, was built between 1825 and 1828 and underwent repairs and restoration in 1884. The structure is made of rubble and concrete, with a concrete sea wall that has been raised on the northern (seaward) face. The harbour features a rectangular basin with an entry point on the southern side. The wide western arm of the harbour extends slightly into the bay, providing shelter for the harbour entry.
Local climate
New Harbour, Shore 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 — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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