56 Church Street, Portsoy is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
56 Church Street, Portsoy
- WRENN ID
- stark-cornice-vale
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- 56 Church Street, Portsoy, AB45 2QR
- OS grid reference
- NJ 589 661
- Coordinates
- 57.68353, -2.68936
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
56 Church Street in Portsoy is a cottage dating from the mid to late 18th century. It is a single-storey building with a dormerless attic and has its gable end facing the street. The exterior is harled with contrasting painted rendered margins. The north elevation features two wide bays, including an entrance with a double-leaf panelled door and flanking windows. The west gable facing the street has a pair of ground floor windows and a pair of smaller first-floor windows, with varied glazing patterns in the timber sash and case windows. The end stacks have been renewed, and the roof is covered with slate.
At the rear, there is an early 19th-century single-storey cottage made of rubble, featuring three bays. It has a central door and fixed 12-pane glazing in the flanking windows, topped with a corrugated roof.
Local climate
56 Church 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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
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