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Linlithgow, Edinburgh Road, St Magdalene's Distillery, Malting Barn And Double Kiln
Distillery (19th Century), Kiln (19th Century), Maltings (19th Century) (1880)
Site Name Linlithgow, Edinburgh Road, St Magdalene's Distillery, Malting Barn And Double Kiln
Classification Distillery (19th Century), Kiln (19th Century), Maltings (19th Century) (1880)
Canmore ID 106174
Site Number NT07NW 95
NGR NT 00724 77092
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/106174
- Council West Lothian
- Parish Linlithgow
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District West Lothian
- Former County West Lothian
St Magdalene's Distillery, Edinburgh Road, c.1880
Taking its name from the vanished Hospital of St Mary Magdalene, the distillery consisted of two huge, stone malting-barns (one four-storey, one enclosing a courtyard) and three square kilns capped with pagoda ventilators. Eastern range refurbished with adjacent neo-Mackintosh terraced housing, 1990, by Cooper Design Associates and monumental western structure, 2002, by R & G Homes.
Taken from "West Lothian: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Stuart Eydmann, Richard Jaques and Charles McKean, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
St Magdalene's Distillery, Edinburgh Road, c.1880
Taking its name from the vanished Hospital of St Mary Magdalene, the distillery consisted of two huge, stone malting-barns (one four-storey, one enclosing a courtyard) and three square kilns capped with pagoda ventilators. Eastern range refurbished with adjacent neo-Mackintosh terraced housing, 1990, by Cooper Design Associates and monumental western structure, 2002, by R & G Homes.
Taken from "West Lothian: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Stuart Eydmann, Richard Jaques and Charles McKean, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NT07NW 95 00800 77080
See also NT07NW 16.
St Magdalene's Distillery: An extensive distillery at the E side of the town of Linlithgow, licensed to distill from malt only. It consists of the usual works: maltings, kilns, still house, warehouses etc. (1st edition of the OS 6-inch map, Linlithgow sheet 3, 1857 names the individual buildings in the distillery.) It was erected in 1824, and is capable of manufacturing, on average, 4,000 gallons of whisky weekly and gives emplyment to about 30 persons. It is the property of, and occupied by, Messrs Adam and John Dawson.
Name Book 1856
Former 18th century, St Magdalene's Distillery, now partially converted into flats.
Information from RCAHMS (DE) August 1996.
On the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Linlithgowshire 1897, sheet 5NE) there is a landing place marked close to the Distillery, which was presumably used by the Distillery.
Information from RCAHMS (MD) 5 April 2001.
Publication Account (2000)
The presence of the canal also now endowed local industry with a new water supply. St Magdalene's Distillery figure 21, for example, an imposing group of buildings still standing on the site of the old cattle market, was in an ideal position to draw its cooling water (although not that used in the whisky itself) from the canal. The distillery was built on the site of the Hospital of St Mary Magdalene, first mentioned in 1335. According to a charter of 1528, this was a hospital for the poor, with a chapel and cemetery, but it may even have been a leper hospital. The site is now occupied by one of the warehouses of the distillery; it is unlikely to have survived the impact of such a building.
Information from ‘Historic Linlithgow: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (2000).
