2 Main Street, Portsoy is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 February 1982. House.
2 Main Street, Portsoy
- WRENN ID
- spare-storey-lake
- 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 590 663
- Coordinates
- 57.6852, -2.68798
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a single storey and attic house located at 2 Main Street in Portsoy, dating from around 1870. The house has a gable end facing the street and features modern harl with rendered margins, along with some tooled rubble dressings and a part battered base course. The entrance is through a central door, and there are gabled dormers that break the wallhead in the outer bays. The north gable has windows on both the ground and first floors, which are modern timber sash and case windows. The house has coped end stacks, a slate roof, and a pottery ridge.
Local climate
2 Main 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings