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Edinburgh, Wheatfield Road, North British Distillery
Distillery (19th Century) (1885)
Site Name Edinburgh, Wheatfield Road, North British Distillery
Classification Distillery (19th Century) (1885)
Canmore ID 68132
Site Number NT27SW 112
NGR NT 22950 72588
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/68132
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
Note (27 January 2014)
For Westfield warehouses built to accommodate grain whisky production at the North British Distillery, see NT27SW 4574.
Information from RCAHMS (HDS) 27 January 2014
Field Visit (17 November 2021)
Site assessed for designation in 2021-22. The designation report is available on our Heritage Portal.
The North British Distillery is a multi-phase distillery site, established in 1885-86 by Andrew Usher, William Sanderson and John Crabbie.
The site comprises a gatehouse (dated 1886), an L-plan bonded warehouse range (built around 1886), a former filling house (dated 1891), a 1930s distillery office, a range of workshops and related distillery buildings and structures which have been altered and extended in the 20th and early-21st centuries.
Visited by HES Designations (REMB) 17 November 2021.
