Old Co-Operative Grain Store, Shorehead, Portsoy is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Grain store. 1 related planning application.
Old Co-Operative Grain Store, Shorehead, Portsoy
- WRENN ID
- inner-rubble-spring
- 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
- Grain store
- Address
- Old Co-Operative Grain Store, Shorehead, Portsoy, AB45 2PB
- OS grid reference
- NJ 588 663
- Coordinates
- 57.68516, -2.69156
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Co-Operative Grain Store in Shorehead, Portsoy, is a long, rectangular building dating from the late 18th century. It stands three storeys high and has four wide bays, constructed from rubble. There is a forestair on the south gable leading to a first-floor entrance. The roof is piended and covered with corrugated asbestos, featuring ridge ventilators. Most of the openings in the building are blocked, and there is a large, wide entrance on the ground floor that has been slapped.
Local climate
Old Co-Operative Grain Store, Shorehead, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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