Old Coastgaurd's House, 4 Lodging Brae, Portsoy is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 March 1995.
Old Coastgaurd's House, 4 Lodging Brae, Portsoy
- WRENN ID
- white-wicket-grain
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1995
- OS grid reference
- NJ 589 662
- Coordinates
- 57.68433, -2.68928
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Coastguard's House, located at 2 Lodging Brae in Portsoy, is a late 19th-century building that stands two stories tall and faces north, overlooking the sea. The structure is built of tooled rubble with tooled and polished ashlar dressings. It features an irregular seven-bay frontage that includes numbers 1, 2, and 3, with an advanced gable for number 4 at the western end.
Entries to numbers 1 and 2 are located at the rear, while number 3 has its entrance in the front re-entrant angle with the gable of number 4. The entry to number 4 is through a projecting, corniced single-storey porch that has a blocking course against the western return gable.
Number 2 has a modern enlarged window on the ground floor with plate glass glazing, while the other windows retain their original multi-pane glazing in timber sash and case styles. A porthole window is present in the gablehead. The building features corniced end and ridge stacks, plain apex finials, and a slate roof with dark pottery ridge tiles.
Local climate
Old Coastgaurd's House, 4 Lodging Brae, 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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