Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Event ID 561530
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/561530
Benrinnes Distillery, which is situated about 2km south of Charlestown of Aberlour, began production in the mid-nineteenth century. Most of the buildings visible today date from a phase of modernisation carried out in 1956.
The tall brick chimney forms an attractive feature when set against the white buildings. Most of these belong to the 1956 rebuilding, but a few nineteenth-century buildings survive. These include a cask store, the rubble walls of which provide a stark contrast to the adjacent modern buildings, and the distillery cottages, which are also built of rubble masonry.
Other features include the still-house, expanded to six stills in 1966, and a boiler house with its pair of Penman Boilers, both Glasgow-made. Although the distillery has its own maltings, these have been long disused and 'ready made' malt is bought in from larger commercial maltings.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
