40 South High Street, Portsoy is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. House. 1 related planning application.

40 South High Street, Portsoy

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Grade
C
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
40 South High Street, Portsoy, AB45 2NT
OS grid reference
NJ 588 660
Coordinates
57.68275, -2.69154
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

40 South High Street in Portsoy is an early 19th century, two-storey house with a dormerless attic and three bays, which has had a shop inserted later. The exterior is harled with ashlar margins. It features a narrow central entrance with a panelled door and a letterbox fanlight above. The first-floor windows are smaller, while the shop to the left has an enlarged window and doorway. The original windows have four-pane timber sash and case glazing, whereas the shop has plate glass. The building has coped end rubble stacks that are truncated at the south gable, flat skews with run-off skewputts, and a slate roof that includes cast-iron roof lights.

Local climate

40 South 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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