Corf Warehouse

Corf Warehouse
The building (left) in 2008
Location	Shorehead, Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Coordinates	57.68500°N 2.69155°W / 57.68500; -2.69155
Built	1765 (260 years ago) (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

• List of listed buildings in Portsoy, Aberdeenshire

References

1. "CORF WAREHOUSE" – Historic Scotland
2. "SHOREHEAD, OLD HARBOUR – Historic Scotland
3. "SHOREHEAD, OLD CO-OPERATIVE GRAIN STORE" – Historic Scotland
4. 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.