Nile Cottage, 13 Seafield Terrace, Portsoy is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. House. 4 related planning applications.
Nile Cottage, 13 Seafield Terrace, Portsoy
- WRENN ID
- lunar-garret-root
- 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
- House
- Address
- Nile Cottage, 13 Seafield Terrace, Portsoy, AB45 2QB
- OS grid reference
- NJ 586 658
- Coordinates
- 57.68035, -2.69462
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Nile Cottage, located at 13 Seafield Terrace in Portsoy, dates from around 1820. This is a two-storey house with a dormerless attic and a wide three-bay south-facing façade. The exterior is harled with plain reveals. The central entrance features a double leaf panelled door and a rectangular fanlight above. There is a first-floor window and a small attic light in the west gable. The windows are timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing. The house has masonry end stacks, two modern Velux roof lights, flat skews, a dark pottery ridge, and a slate roof. At the east gable, there is a modern single-storey flat-roofed kitchen extension.
Inside, the ground and first floor former parlour (to the west) has decorative plaster cornices, moulded skirting boards, a dado rail, and an original wooden chimney piece with fluted jambs. There is also a mural alcove designed to accommodate a grandfather clock at the foot of the stairs.
Local climate
Nile Cottage, 13 Seafield Terrace, 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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