Corf Warehouse
| Corf Warehouse | |
|---|---|
 The building (left) in 2008 | |
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| Location | Shorehead, Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
| Coordinates | 57°41′06″N 2°41′30″W / 57.68500°N 2.69155°W |
| Built | 1765 |
Listed Building – Category A | |
| Official name | Shorehead, Corf Warehouse (Portsoy Marble) |
| Designated | 22 February 1972 |
| Reference no. | LB40293 |
Corf Warehouse is a Category A listed building in Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Dating to 1765, it stands in Shorehead, on the western side of Portsoy harbour.[1] The harbour itself is also Category A listed, dating to 1692.[2] Corf is a Scottish word for salmon.
The building was designed by John Adam, and is a narrow, rectangular, four-storey structure with seven bays. Its ground-floor masonry features material from an earlier salmon-house, documented as 'Lord Findlater's Corf House'.[1]
Historic Scotland assessed the building in a group containing 10 Shorehead, the adjacent Old Co-Operative Grain Store and the harbour.[3]
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).[4] The trust is based in Corf Warehouse.[5] As of 2025, the building is also home to Portsoy Marble.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "CORF WAREHOUSE" – Historic Scotland
- ^ "SHOREHEAD, OLD HARBOUR – Historic Scotland
- ^ "SHOREHEAD, OLD CO-OPERATIVE GRAIN STORE" – Historic Scotland
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ "North East Scotland Preservation Trust - NESPT". North East Scotland Preservation Trust. Retrieved 13 January 2025.