12 North High Street, Portsoy is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

12 North High Street, Portsoy

WRENN ID
little-rubblework-claret
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
Cottage
Address
12 North High Street, Portsoy, AB45 2PA
OS grid reference
NJ 588 662
Coordinates
57.68387, -2.69111
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

12 North High Street in Portsoy is a cottage built in the mid to late 18th century. It is a single-storey structure with a dormerless attic and features an entrance gable facing the street. The exterior is harled, with a narrow, slightly off-centre doorway and a small attic window above it. There are two windows in the east gable and a small attic light. The front door is panelled, and the timber sash windows have 12-pane glazing, while the attic lights have 4- and 6-pane glazing. The cottage has crowstepped gables and renewed end chimney stacks topped with early 19th-century coping. The roof is made of pantiles with a slate easing course.

Local climate

12 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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