The Brig, 26 Schoolhendry Street, Portsoy is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 March 1995. House.

The Brig, 26 Schoolhendry Street, Portsoy

WRENN ID
scarred-obsidian-winter
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 March 1995
Type
House
OS grid reference
NJ 590 662
Coordinates
57.68415, -2.6882
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Brig, located at 26 Schoolhendry Street in Portsoy, is a semi-detached house dating from around 1800. It is two stories high and has three bays. The building is constructed of rubble with contrasting painted tooled ashlar margins. The entrance is located in the center, with small windows on the first floor. The ground floor features modern timber sash windows with 12-pane glazing, while the first floor has modern glazing. The house has coped end stacks, flat skews, and a slate roof.

Local climate

The Brig, 26 Schoolhendry 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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