Corf Warehouse

Corf Warehouse
The building (left) in 2008
Interactive map of Corf Warehouse
57°41′06″N 2°41′30″W / 57.68500°N 2.69155°W / 57.68500; -2.69155
LocationShorehead, Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
History
Built1765 (261 years ago) (1765)
Listed Building – Category A
Official name
Shorehead, Corf Warehouse (Portsoy Marble)
Designated22 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. The harbour itself is also Category A listed, dating to 1692. 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'.

Historic Scotland assessed the building in a group containing 10 Shorehead, the adjacent Old Co-Operative Grain Store and the harbour.

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). The trust is based in Corf Warehouse. As of 2025, the building is also home to Portsoy Marble.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "CORF WAREHOUSE" – Historic Scotland
  2. ↑ "SHOREHEAD, OLD HARBOUR – Historic Scotland
  3. ↑ "SHOREHEAD, OLD CO-OPERATIVE GRAIN STORE" – Historic Scotland
  4. 1 2 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.
  5. ↑ "North East Scotland Preservation Trust - NESPT". North East Scotland Preservation Trust. Retrieved 13 January 2025.