Archaeology Notes

Event ID 757981

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ25NW 21.00 24037 55330

NJ25NW 21.01 centred NJ 24041 55002 1-8 Distillery Cottages

(Location cited as NJ 240 553). Coleburn Distillery, founded 1896. This complex is dominated by a 2-storey, 4- by 12-bay block of maltings, with 2 kilns.

J R Hume 1977

Coleburn was built in 1897 by John Robertson and Company Ltd, blenders, Dundee and sold in 1916 to the Clynelish Distillery Co. Ltd. It was owned by John Risk, the DCL and John Walker and Sons Ltd. It was then transferred to the Distillers Company Ltd. and thence to Scottish Malt Distillers Limited (wholly owned subsidiary of DCL) in 1930. It had two stills in 1980 and was liscensed to J & G Stewart, Edinburgh.

M S Moss and J R Hume 1981

RCAHMS photographic survey, 1996.

(Undated) information in NMRS.