Sunnybank, 2 Seafield Terrace, 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.
Sunnybank, 2 Seafield Terrace, Portsoy
- WRENN ID
- tattered-minaret-dew
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NJ 587 659
- Coordinates
- 57.68116, -2.69406
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Sunnybank is a mid-19th century, two-storey house located at 2 Seafield Terrace in Portsoy. It features a wide, three-bay south-facing facade, with short screen walls set back from the front and projecting from the return elevations, which creates an elongated appearance. The building is constructed of mixed rubble with tooled and polished ashlar sandstone dressings. The centre bay is slightly advanced and includes a hoodmoulded entrance with a late 19th-century panelled door, side lights, and a fanlight above.
A narrow bandcourse acts as a cill course for the first-floor centre window. The wallhead parapet is blocked and raised at the centre, adorned with simple scrolled and foliated decoration that encompasses a small blank shield. The outer bays feature hoodmoulded bipartite windows. The glazing consists of two- and four-pane designs, and the house has coped end wallhead stacks and a piended slate roof. Each side screen wall ends with a giant panelled and corniced pilaster topped by a panelled obelisk finial, along with blind quatrefoil ornamentation. The west screen wall conceals a single-storey service range that was formerly the Free Church School, and there are various outbuildings at the rear.
Inside, the house has simple moulded ceiling cornices, plain chimneypieces with renewed grates, decorative cast-iron balusters on the staircase, and panelled doors. The garden is enclosed by rubble walls, with renewed gate piers at the entrance.
Local climate
Sunnybank, 2 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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