Springbank Distillery, Glebe Street, Campbeltown

Springbank Distillery is a substantial complex of distillery buildings on Glebe Street, Campbeltown, the earliest dating from 1828. The complex includes an office at its centre, with the principal distilling building to the southwest forming an approximate T-plan that houses the still house, malt bins, mash tun, and stores. A kiln is situated at the west end, linking to the maltings and barley loft. To the east and north are a cooperage, bottling halls, and a variety of warehouses and stores.

Office

The office is a single-storey, three-bay symmetrical building at the centre of the complex. The south and west elevations are constructed of stugged squared and snecked sandstone, with random rubble elsewhere and droved ashlar details. A four-panel entrance door with a plate glass fanlight above centres the south front, flanked by plate glass timber sash and case bipartite windows. Plate glass timber sash and case windows with steel bars are positioned at the right and left of the east and west elevations respectively. The roof is covered in grey slate with cast-iron gutters and downpipes. Stugged ashlar two-flue apex stacks, coped with circular cans, and ashlar skew copes complete the roofline.

Warehouse No. 3

Warehouse No. 3 is a single-storey building adjoined to the north of the office, with a double-pile plan creating an M-roof profile. The walls are random rubble with stugged sandstone dressings. The west elevation has an M-gable, with a horizontal window fitted with an iron bar centring the left gable, a two-leaf vertically-boarded timber door to the left of the right gable, and a matching window to the right. The roof is clad in corrugated sheeting with concrete skews.

Still House, Mill, Malt Bins, Mash Tun, Wash Backs and Stores

This three-storey, seven-bay malt bin and store building faces Well Close, with a double-pile three-storey, five-bay mill, still house, and mash tun range projecting northward at the rear, forming an approximate T-plan. The walls are rubble (whitewashed to the east) with stugged ashlar lintels.

The south elevation facing Well Close has seven regular bays. Some openings are infilled with rubble, including all second-floor openings except for a boarded opening at the outer right. A rubble-infilled door is located to the left of the penultimate bay to the right. A large mesh-infilled modern opening appears at first-floor level in the bay to the outer left. Modern steel angle-irons are positioned between each bay.

The east courtyard elevation has the end wall of the Well Close elevation advanced at the outer left, with a window centred at the second floor and a door at ground floor to the outer right. A single-storey brick and rubble lean-to projects northward at the right. A five-bay courtyard elevation is set back at the right. A three-storey painted brick and corrugated-iron addition with a loft occupies the re-entrant at the left. The first bay has a segmental-arched opening with brick voussoirs, two-leaf vertically-boarded timber doors with iron hinges, and a multi-pane fanlight above. A cast-iron pulley wheel fronts a vertically-boarded timber shuttered opening in the next bay to the right. A two-storey L-plan stugged ashlar draff drainer in the next bay is surmounted by a metal tank supported at the left by tall cast-iron columns. A three-pane fixed-light is positioned at ground floor in the next bay to the right, with vertically-boarded timber shutters to the opening below. Vertically-boarded timber doors fill an opening set in brick infill in the next bay to the right. A plate glass fixed-light is in the bay to the outer right, with the adjacent corner curved at ground floor.

The north elevation shows the end elevations of the wash back and spirit store, with the one to the right advanced. The three-bay spirit store to the left has an eight-pane fixed-light with iron bars centred at ground floor, and multi-pane fixed-lights at first and second floors. The wash back is advanced at the right, partially obscured at ground floor by the dry goods store. Iron bars protect an opening at ground floor left, with vertically-boarded shuttering to the opening above and a six-pane fixed-light at second floor to the left of centre.

Inside, the floors of the malt bins area have been removed, leaving an open timber roof above. A timber malt dresser and weighing machine survive in the mill. The wash backs have a cast-iron trussed roof. The filter and spirit stores have open timber roofs.

The roof of the malt bins and store is piended and covered in grey slate, with partial corrugated sheeting to the north range. Cast-iron gutters and downpipes are fitted throughout.

Kiln

The kiln presents a blank harled three-storey elevation set back at the left of the Well Close elevation of the malt bins. A large square modern brick chimney with a concrete cope sits at the south pitch. A tall square red-painted brick chimney centres the north elevation.

Maltings and Barley Loft

This double-pile L-plan range has six- and eleven-bay elevations facing Glebe Street and Well Close respectively. The walls are rubble with droved and stugged dressings.

The west elevation facing Glebe Street is regularly fenestrated except for a vertically-boarded timber loading door at first floor in the penultimate bay to the left. Margined openings at ground and first floor have rendered infill to the upper lights and vertically-boarded timber shutters to the lower lights.

The south elevation facing Well Close is a two-storey, eleven-bay elevation. The wallhead at the four bays at the outer right is built up to the height of the bays to the left.

The north elevation is a nine-bay, three-storey elevation with an M-gable advanced at the outer right. Some modern concrete lintels and brick reveals are present at windows. Modern doors are positioned at each floor of the bay to the outer right. Single windows centre each gablehead and flank the centre.

The roof is M-shaped, piended at the southwest corner, with grey slates surviving at the west end. Cast-iron gutters and downpipes are fitted.

New Bottling Hall

The new bottling hall is a long single-storey range along Well Close with a shorter range alongside to the north, creating an M-gable to the west. The walls are random rubble with stugged sandstone dressings.

The south elevation facing Well Close has seven bays with horizontal windows fitted with iron bars below the eaves.

The west elevation has an M-gable with a modern door to the left of the right gable.

The north elevation has horizontal windows below the eaves, with some evidence of infilled openings. A modern opening at the outer left has brick reveals. A large opening is present in the east gable of the north range.

The M-roof is clad in corrugated metal sheeting with cast-iron gutters and downpipes.

Whisky Bottling Plant

This is a five-bay, two-storey double-pile building with an M-roof.

The north elevation facing Well Close has two-leaf vertically-boarded timber doors at a brick-infilled opening to the outer left. Wide brick-infilled openings are positioned at the centre and flanking it. Horizontal windows with iron bars are at first floor, with additional windows inserted between bays at ground floor. The building has an open timber roof with a grey slate finish and cast-iron gutters and downpipes.

Cooperage

The cooperage is a double-pile building to the east of the office, of rectangular plan comprising two ranges: a two-storey rubble and brick range to the north and a three-storey rubble range to the south. The roof is M-shaped and clad in profiled sheet metal.

The west elevation has an M-gable, with the one to the right slightly advanced. The three-bay gable to the left has vertically-boarded timber doors in the bay to the left, a hatch at the centre bay, and a two-leaf door with glazed upper panel in the bay to the right. The two-bay gable to the right has a fixed light at first floor in the right bay and a vertically-boarded timber door in the bay to the left, accessed by a brick and concrete stair. A two-pane fixed-light is in the gablehead.

The south elevation has a variety of openings at ground floor and an evenly fenestrated first floor.

The north elevation has closely spaced fixed lights at first floor.

Store

This is a rectangular, partially harled and gabled rubble building to the north of the cooperage. Brick reveals frame the openings. Two-leaf vertically-boarded timber doors are positioned at the centre and right of the west gable, with horizontally-boarded timber infill to the left. Timber barge boards and a corrugated-iron roof complete the structure.

Dry Goods Store

The dry goods store is a single-storey, double-pile building of rubble and stugged sandstone, with a profiled sheet metal roof and concrete skews.

The east elevation has two widely spaced bays with rubble infill to the opening at the bay to the right.

The north elevation has an M-gable. A horizontal window with iron bars is positioned at left of centre of the left gable and at the left and right of the right gable.

Duty Free Warehouses 7, 8, and 9

These warehouses comprise a two-storey, thirteen-bay double-pile warehouse lining the north extent of the site. The walls are rubble with stugged sandstone dressings, and the eaves and skews are built up in brick. The M-roof is covered in grey slate with cast-iron gutters and downpipes.

The south elevation has segmental-arched openings with brick voussoirs in the fourth, sixth (brick infilled), ninth, and twelfth bays. Ground floor windows in the outer left three bays have iron bars. Horizontal slit windows with bars appear elsewhere at ground and first floor except over the arches.

The west elevation facing Glebe Street has an M-gable with rubble-infilled windows flanking the centres at ground floor. Iron bars protect windows centring the gables at first floor.

The east elevation has an M-gable. A four-bay single-storey old cooperage projects from the right gable. Four-pane fixed lights are present, with a vertically-boarded timber entrance door at the bay to the outer right on the south elevation and centred at first floor of the gable end.