10 Shorehead

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10 Shorehead
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10 Shorehead
LocationShorehead, Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Coordinates 57°41′05″N2°41′30″W / 57.68478°N 2.69168°W / 57.68478; -2.69168
Built1726(299 years ago) (1726)
Listed Building – Category C(S)
Official name10 Shorehead
Designated22 February 1972
Reference no.LB40292

10 Shorehead is a Category C listed building in Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Dating to 1726, it stands in Shorehead, in the southwestern corner of Portsoy harbour. [1] The harbour itself is Category A listed, dating to 1692. [2] The building's former warehouse, located adjacent to the east, is also Category C listed. It dates to the late 18th century. [3]

The building, which was built by a merchant, David Brebner, [4] is three storeys with an attic in an L-plan range. It has harled ashlar margins. There is an entrance to the attic in the southern gable of the wing reach from Barbank Street. A skewputt on the northeastern side of the building is dated 1727. [2] Brebner's son, Alexander, inherited the property. [4]

In 1971, work was being done on the building. [5] The following year, Historic Scotland assessed the building in a group containing the adjacent (to the west) Corf Warehouse, Old Co-Operative Grain Store and the harbour. [6]

The structure was listed on Scotland's Buildings at Risk Register between 1994 and 2013. [7]

The warehouse was one of six buildings in the harbour owned by Tom Burnett-Stuart. When he died, in January 2020, he left the buildings in the care of North East Scotland Preservation Trust (NESPT). [8]

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References

  1. "10 Shorehead"Historic Scotland
  2. 1 2 "SHOREHEAD, OLD HARBOUR – Historic Scotland
  3. "Portsoy, 10 Shorehead, Warehouse | Canmore". canmore.org.uk. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  4. 1 2 Cramond, William (1891). The annals of Banff;. Harvard University. Aberdeen, Printed for the New Spalding Club.
  5. Country Life. Country Life, Limited. 1971. p. 366.
  6. "SHOREHEAD, OLD CO-OPERATIVE GRAIN STORE"Historic Scotland
  7. "Merchant's Warehouse @ NJ 58860 66305, Shorehead, Portsoy | Buildings at Risk Register". www.buildingsatrisk.org.uk. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  8. Andonova, Denny (26 December 2023). "'Tom's dying wish': Inside historic Portsoy harbour buildings amid multi-million-pound labour of love to revive them". Press and Journal. Retrieved 11 January 2025.