Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Event ID 561901
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/561901
The Glenlivet Distillery was founded in 1824, and moved to its present location in 1858. Since then it has undergone considerable modernisation, though some interesting buildings of late nineteenth-century date still survive. These include three ranges of bonded warehouses, a two-storeyed office block and a malt barn, which is now in use as a visitor centre.
The bonded warehouses, where the whisky is stored in secure conditions as it matures, are amongst the oldest examples to survive in Scotland. They can be identified by their unusual arrangement of windows, which consists of a larger central window of a pointed, quasi-medieval Gothic design, flanked on either side by smaller, circular windows.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
