Building record MAB14073 - SOY HOUSE, 28-32 CHURCH STREET, PORTSOY

House and cottage, still in residential use, built in the 18th and 19th centuries.

House and cottage, still in residential use, built in the 18th and 19th centuries. The house is made up of three distinct buildings. Number 32 was built in circa 1700, Number 30 is early 18th century and Number 28 was added in circa 1820. The cottage to the rear was built in the mid 19th century. The main house, Soy (or Soye) House, is two and three-storey, with the first section (Number 32) being a rectangular dwelling with its gable end to the street, Number 30 being a rectangular block at right angles forming an L-plan, and Number 28 then added filling the angle and creating a square building. Twelve-pane timber sash and case glazing is used throughout, and there are renewed end stacks to the slate roofs, which have sandstone ridges. Number 32 is three-storey and attic with a long regular four-bay north elevation. It is constructed from harled rubble with tooled ashlar margins and dressings, and boulder foundation stones are evident beneath the harl. The chamfered, margined fenestration has some long and short detailing. The west street gable has regular paired windows in the first and second floors, with a pair of diminutive round-headed windows to the attic. Crowstepped gables have worn-down crowsteps. Number 30 is harled with a raised basement, rear entry, first and second floor gable windows an apex stack and flat skews. Number 28 is two-storey and dormerless attic, with three bays to Church Street and a centre bay linking the return gables of Numbers 32 and 28 with a doorway providing entry to Number 32. The entrance to Number 28 is in a two-bay south elevation opening to a pend. It is constructed from dark pinned squared rubble with contrasting tooled sandstone dressings and margins. There is a Venetian window with multi-pane glazing lights at the first floor of the south elevation, and there are blocked attic lights and flat skews. The cottage to the rear is single-storey and three-bay, and is constructed from coursed rubble with tooled rubble dressings. The centre entrance has a double-leaf plank door and there is six-pane glazing to the flanking windows. There is a single chimney stack only to the south gable and a pantile roof with a slate easing course. A high rubble, rubble-coped wall encloses the rear garden.

Period Notes
House and garden walls listed on 22/02/1972, cottage listed on 15/03/1995. The earlier section of the house was built in circa 1700, with other sections added in the 18th and 19th centuries.

TRANTER, N, 1974, NE SHIRES BANFF, MORAY & NAIRN, 64 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1920.

SDD, n.d., BLDS OF ARCH & HIST INTEREST, PORTSOY BURGH 49 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1827.

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Apr 8 2024 11:20AM