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

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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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