2 Wood Street, Portsoy is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 February 1982. House.

2 Wood Street, Portsoy

WRENN ID
former-paling-ivy
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 February 1982
Type
House
OS grid reference
NJ 591 663
Coordinates
57.68534, -2.6875
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

2 Wood Street in Portsoy is a two-storey house built in 1869, featuring a wide three-bay design. The exterior is finished with modern harl, and it has rendered reveals with tooled rubble dressings. The central entrance door is flanked by gabled dormers that break the wallhead in each outer bay. The windows are modern two-pane sash and case style.

The house has coped end rubble stacks and a slate roof that includes a Velux rooflight, along with a pottery ridge.

Local climate

2 Wood 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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