St Comb's Well, St Comb's Road, Portsoy is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 June 1989. Structure.
St Comb's Well, St Comb's Road, Portsoy
- WRENN ID
- haunted-lancet-bone
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- Structure
- OS grid reference
- NJ 592 659
- Coordinates
- 57.68196, -2.68546
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Comb's Well is a small domed structure from the 18th or 19th century, located on the south side of a slope above a burial ground in Portsoy. The building has a rustic appearance, constructed from pink and grey serpentine rubble. It features a round-headed entrance with a worn sandstone plaque above it.
Inside, the structure has a domed ceiling and includes a masonry bench along the walls. Water flows into a small central masonry basin. There are also three small mural aumbries, which may have been used for lights.
Local climate
St Comb's Well, St Comb's Road, 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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