38 Church Street, Portsoy is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. House. 1 related planning application.

38 Church Street, Portsoy

WRENN ID
small-basalt-furze
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
38 Church Street, Portsoy, AB45 2QR
OS grid reference
NJ 590 661
Coordinates
57.68295, -2.68895
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

38 Church Street in Portsoy is a house built around 1860. It is two stories tall with an attic and features a wide three-bay design. The exterior is made of coursed dark rubble, accented with contrasting tooled sandstone dressings and margins. At the center, there is a wide corniced entrance that includes a panelled door from around 1900, flanked by narrow sidelights and topped with a decoratively carved lintel supported by console brackets. On the south return gable, there is a single window on the first floor. The house also has three slate-hung wallhead dormers with pediments, dating from around 1900. The sash windows have eight panes of glazing, and the building is topped with a slate roof featuring pottery ridge tiles.

Local climate

38 Church 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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