Durn Toll House, Portsoy is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 May 1990. Toll cottage.
Durn Toll House, Portsoy
- WRENN ID
- last-nave-rain
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 May 1990
- Type
- Toll cottage
- OS grid reference
- NJ 590 648
- Coordinates
- 57.67186, -2.68805
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Durn Toll House in Portsoy is an earlier 19th century single-storey toll cottage that features canted end gables and a modern extension added in the 1980s, designed to be sympathetic to the original style. The building is constructed of harl pointed rubble with tooled rubble dressings. The entrance is located in the 1980s three-bay wing, and there are windows on each outer face of the canted gables, fitted with modern four-pane glazing. A tall ridge stack is present, and the roof is covered with piended slate. The garden is enclosed by a low coped harled wall.
Local climate
Durn Toll House, 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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