Maltings (item 9 on site plan): view from north at top-floor level (former granary), showing enormous latticed wooden roof trusses, supported on single central row of round cast-iron columns. Digital ...

Description Maltings (item 9 on site plan): view from north at top-floor level (former granary), showing enormous latticed wooden roof trusses, supported on single central row of round cast-iron columns. Digital image of D 39082.

Date 25/11/1998

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 732329

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 39082

Scope and Content Top floor of maltings from north, Dailuaine Distillery, Aberlour, Moray Dailuaine Distillery, founded in 1852, produces malt whisky which is also used as part of the Johnnie Walker blended whiskies. It was rebuilt in 1884-7, and again after fires in 1917 and 1959-60, and continues to be modernised. A dark grains plant producing cattle feed from the by-products of the whisky-making process was added in 1965. This shows the top floor of the maltings building, once used as a granary. The roof is supported by a complicated arrangement of wooden latticed trusses on cast iron columns. Windows fitted with vents are placed at intervals around the stone walls. The first pagoda roof vent was installed at this distillery by the architect Charles Chree Doig in 1889 on top of a 24.38m-high malt kiln. Unfortunately the kiln was destroyed by fire in 1917, but by then the design had been publicised by 'The Wine Trade Review' and was adopted by most distilleries as a means of efficient ventilation. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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