Bowling, Dumbarton Road, Littlemill Distillery, Maltings And Kilns
Distillery (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Bowling, Dumbarton Road, Littlemill Distillery, Maltings And Kilns
Classification Distillery (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 81823
Site Number NS47SW 77
NGR NS 44102 73708
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/81823
- Council West Dunbartonshire
- Parish Old Kilpatrick (Dumbarton)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Dumbarton
- Former County Dunbartonshire
NS47SW 77.00 44102 73708
NS47SW 77.01 NS 44171 73762 Exciseman's House
(Location cited as NS 442 737). Littlemill Distillery, Bowling, founded c. 1800, rebuilt 1875 and subsequently. A much altered complex of brick and rubble buildings, mainly 1- and 2- storey, with 2 pyramidal-roofed kilns.
J R Hume 1976.
Littlemill Distillery. c.1800 1875 etc.
Visited and photographed by J R Hume, University of Strathclyde, 3 September 1975.
Information from NMRS MS/749 (Dunbartonshire, Old Kilpatrick parish, Littlemill), photographic contact prints attached (Hume index no. H75/54/13-16, negatives with reporter, J R Hume).
(Undated) information in NMRS.
This distillery is said to have been founded in 1772. It has been noted that between the years 1817 and 1971, the distillery had changed hands abut 16 times. Littlemill used triple distillation until the 1930s, and had two stills and a modified Saladin malting in 1980.
M S Moss and J R Hume 1981.
