Corf Warehouse

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.

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

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