Glengarioch Distillery, Distillery Road, Old Meldrum is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 September 1984. Distillery. 8 related planning applications.
Glengarioch Distillery, Distillery Road, Old Meldrum
- WRENN ID
- standing-soffit-poplar
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 September 1984
- Type
- Distillery
- Address
- Glengarioch Distillery, Distillery Road, Old Meldrum, AB51 0ES
- OS grid reference
- NJ 808 275
- Coordinates
- 57.33836, -2.31932
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Glengarioch Distillery, located on Distillery Road in Old Meldrum, is a malt floor and store building dating from around 1780. It is a four-storey structure with eleven bays, constructed from granite rubble. The building features a curved corner at the southwest angle and a canted northwest angle. It has casement windows, with the third floor having louvred windows and the second floor having half louvred windows. The interior includes cast iron columns.
Adjacent to the distillery are mid-19th century warehouses, which consist of nine wide bays arranged in three staggered steps. Each central bay of the sections is slightly higher and includes an attic window. These warehouses are two storeys tall and have stepped slopes with six bay flanks, also made of granite rubble and topped with piended slate roofs. Additionally, there are high rubble walls enclosing the land to the rear of the kiln building.
Local climate
Glengarioch Distillery, Distillery Road, Old Meldrum receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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