Former Episcopal Parsonage, 14 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. 3 related planning applications.

Former Episcopal Parsonage, 14 South High Street, Portsoy

WRENN ID
stony-threshold-cedar
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
Former Episcopal Parsonage, 14 South High Street, Portsoy, AB45 2NT
OS grid reference
NJ 588 660
Coordinates
57.68196, -2.69183
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Former Episcopal Parsonage, located at 14 South High Street in Portsoy, dates from around 1830 and incorporates earlier work. It is a two-storey, L-plan house with two bays, featuring a late 18th century wing that projects towards the road. The building is constructed of rubble with painted ashlar margins and dressings. The doorway is situated in the re-entrant angle and is topped by a console-bracketed cornice, which is also present above the flanking window to the right. There are two pedimented dormers from around 1900 that break the wallhead. The left wing, likely from the late 18th century and said to have served as a former Episcopal Chapel, is a single storey with a modern swept dormer. Additionally, there is a later harled single storey lean-to at the south gable, which includes a doorway. The building features coped end masonry stacks and a slate roof.

Local climate

Former Episcopal Parsonage, 14 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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