View from SE along NE side of main range of distillery's production buildings, with two maltings Kilns and NE end of Maltings range, and Mill, Mash and Still Houses in distance. Digital image of C 679 ...

Description View from SE along NE side of main range of distillery's production buildings, with two maltings Kilns and NE end of Maltings range, and Mill, Mash and Still Houses in distance. Digital image of C 67963 CN

Date 9/5/1996

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

Catalogue Number SC 742504

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 67963 CN

Scope and Content Main production buildings from south-east, Coleburn Distillery, Moray Coleburn Distillery was built in 1897 by John Robertson & Son Ltd, who were blenders from Dundee. It was bought by the Clynelish Distillery Company Ltd in 1916, and by Scottish Malt Distillers in 1930. Coleburn closed in 1985 whilst under the ownership of J & G Stewart of Edinburgh and its licence was cancelled in 1992. This shows the two malt and barley kilns with their rubble walls and tooled stone dressings topped by slated pagoda roofs. To the far right are the mill room, mash house and still house. The architect Charles Doig, who was responsible for the design of many 19th-century distilleries, may have also designed Coleburn. Long after distilleries close, their whisky continues to be sold and gain in value with rarity. One thing it cannot do, however is age. Once bottled, a twelve-year-old Scotch will always remain a twelve-year-old, no matter how long it is kept. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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