The Elms, 12 South High Street, Portsoy is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. House.

The Elms, 12 South High Street, Portsoy

WRENN ID
sleeping-keystone-sage
Grade
C
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
The Elms, 12 South High Street, Portsoy, AB45 2NT
OS grid reference
NJ 588 659
Coordinates
57.68179, -2.69173
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Elms is a late 18th century, two-storey, three-bay house located at 12 South High Street in Portsoy. The exterior is harled with painted ashlar margins. The central door is obscured by a later timber gabled porch that features a side entrance and a front window. The house has renewed 12-pane glazing made of PVC.

It has end chimney stacks and flat skews with run-off skewputts, topped by a slate roof with a sandstone ridge. At the rear, there is a modern kitchen extension with a flat roof.

Surrounding the property are rubble walls that enclose the garden.

Local climate

The Elms, 12 South 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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