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Latitude: 57.6839 / 57°41'2"N
Longitude: -2.6912 / 2°41'28"W
OS Eastings: 358883
OS Northings: 866217
OS Grid: NJ588662
Mapcode National: GBR M8QD.V66
Mapcode Global: WH7KN.M4P8
Plus Code: 9C9VM8M5+HG
Entry Name: 16 North High Street, Portsoy
Listing Name: 16, 18, 20 North High Street 'Old Star Inn'
Listing Date: 22 February 1972
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 386175
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB40268
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Portsoy, 16 North High Street
ID on this website: 200386175
Location: Portsoy
County: Aberdeenshire
Town: Portsoy
Electoral Ward: Banff and District
Traditional County: Banffshire
Tagged with: Inn
Dated 1727. 3-storey and dormerless attic, 8-bay street frontage; later 18th century, tall 2-storey and dormerless attic rear wing over raised basement forms L-plan on sloping rear site. Harled with tooled ashlar margins and dressings. Regular frontage pierced in centre by round-headed arched pend leading to rear entries and Low Street. Entry to no 16 in 1st floor, right, with non-traditional modern door and access via stone forestair. Entry to no 18 in rear of building and to no 20 in long S elevation of rear wing. 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows throughout except for 6-pane gable attic lights
and small rear raised basement window originally a store, with margins checked for shutters. Flat skews with shaped and run-off skewputts; masonry end stacks with renewed copes; steeply pitched slate roofs; sandstone ridge.
NE gable skewputt dated 1727. The NW skewputt is incised with faint and indecipherable initials, presumably those of the builder.
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