6 Hill Street, Portsoy

6 Hill Street in Portsoy is a mid-18th century, two-storey house with a dormerless attic and three bays. It has a gable end facing Hill Street and a south-facing front elevation that overlooks a public footpath. The exterior features red harling that incorporates local red 'serpentine' aggregate, with painted ashlar margins and dressings. The central entrance has a double-leaf panelled door topped with a letterbox fanlight. The windows are timber sash with 12-pane glazing. The rear elevation retains its original central ground and first-floor windows, along with two additional ground-floor windows, one of which has modern glazing. The remaining windows feature 9- and 12-pane sash glazing. There is an off-centre rear wallhead stack and end chimney stacks that are ashlar margined and harled, complete with moulded corniced copes. The roof is slate with flat skews and shaped run-off skewputts, and there is a sandstone ridge.

A later single-storey service wing with a single-pitched slated roof extends from the west gable, featuring red harling and perimeter walls that extend beyond the house both at the back and front.

Inside, the ground floor is in poor condition, with some long-term restoration currently underway. The plain staircase leads to a first-floor parlour in the southeast, which has a simple moulded plaster ceiling cornice, raised and fielded six-panel doors, and a round-headed mural cupboard with a carved 'keystone' and panelled doors flanked by fluted pilasters. There is a simple painted wooden chimneypiece decorated with delicate swags and flowers, and panelled doors are also present in the southwest first-floor room.

The property features a small front garden enclosed by a low front wall, with a pedestrian entrance that includes a cast-iron spearhead gate. The remainder of the front garden and the extensive rear plot are enclosed by high rubble walls.

Additionally, there is a former gig-house, a small rectangular outbuilding with its gable end facing Hill Street. It has a wide round-headed entrance that is closed by double-leaf plank doors and is constructed of harled rubble with a pantile roof.