1, 3 North High Street, Portsoy is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. House. 2 related planning applications.

1, 3 North High Street, Portsoy

WRENN ID
other-storey-alder
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
1, 3 North High Street, Portsoy, AB45 2PA
OS grid reference
NJ 588 661
Coordinates
57.68346, -2.69154
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

1 and 3 North High Street in Portsoy is a house from the later 18th century. It is two stories high and has three bays, featuring a central door along with an additional entrance and shop window added at a later date. The exterior is made of heavily pointed rubble, with painted tooled and polished ashlar margins and dressings.

The central entrance is framed by a corniced and fluted Ionic pilastered doorpiece. To the left of the entrance, there is a later shop door and an enlarged window that has modern glazing in timber sash and case windows. The other windows have 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case style. The building has corniced end stacks, flat skews with run-off shaped cavetto skewputts, and a roof made of Welsh slate.

Local climate

1, 3 North 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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