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

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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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