3 Institute Street, Portsoy is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Corner block.
3 Institute Street, Portsoy
- WRENN ID
- keen-corner-storm
- 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
- Corner block
- OS grid reference
- NJ 590 660
- Coordinates
- 57.68262, -2.68871
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
3 Institute Street in Portsoy is a building dated 1884. It features a 2-storey, 2-bay corner block with a return gable facing Church Street and a single-storey, 3-bay hall range that fronts Institute Street. The exterior is harled with contrasting painted concrete dressings. The doorway includes a letterbox fanlight, a flanking window, and a pair of first-floor windows, along with a datestone at the apex on Institute Street. The return gable to Church Street has paired ground-floor windows and a small bipartite window on the first floor. The windows, door, and corners exhibit long and short detailing. The building has 4-pane timber sash and case glazing. The 2-storey block has a piended slate roof, while the hall has a sated roof, and there are coped concrete end stacks.
Local climate
3 Institute 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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