17 Low Street, Portsoy is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. House.
17 Low Street, Portsoy
- WRENN ID
- fossil-rampart-ivy
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NJ 589 662
- Coordinates
- 57.68404, -2.69066
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
17 Low Street in Portsoy is a house from the mid 19th century, though it likely includes earlier elements. It is a two-storey, three-bay structure with a return gable facing Low Street. The exterior features heavily pointed rubble with contrasting tooled ashlar sandstone dressings. The main entrance is located on the south elevation, beneath a substantial relieving arch. The first-floor windows are only in the outer bays. There is also an entrance and a raised basement window in the Low Street gable, which features a wide relieving arch revealed in the masonry, along with a wide, crudely chamfered southeast angle that stands about two meters high.
Attached to the west gable is a single-storey and attic irregular four-bay wing, which has a slightly advanced frontage made from similar masonry as the main house. The main house has 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, with variations elsewhere. It has coped end stacks and slate roofs. The main house includes 19th-century rooflights, while the single-storey attic has modern Velux windows.
Local climate
17 Low 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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