Rosebank Distillery, Camelon Road, Falkirk

Rosebank Distillery is a large, multi-phase former distillery complex located on a roughly triangular site next to the Forth and Clyde Canal, adjacent to Lock 11 at Camelon Road, Falkirk. The core of the complex dates to circa 1840, with earlier fabric, although it was substantially rebuilt between 1864 and 1865. Subsequent additions and alterations occurred in the early and mid-20th century.

The Camelon Road frontage features a range of two and three-storey brick buildings, some of which are rendered. A prominent three-storey tun room is incorporated, now one-storey internally, showing evidence of a former louvred refrigeration room in the top floor. In front of the set-back still house are three large wooden worm tubs, and the still house itself contains three copper stills (for triple distillation), a boiler room, and a mash house. A tall, circular section red brick chimney stack rises from the site, with the top section rebuilt in brick during the 1980s. Rendered and painted brick buildings are situated at the western corner of the site. Facing the canal are two three-storey ranges of duty-free warehouses, separated by a gateway.

To the west is an eight-bay red brick former malt store, incorporating masonry at ground floor level from earlier construction, and with a piended slate roof. A central pend entrance leads to a courtyard, flanked by a ten-bay brick section and a wider four-bay canted section of bonded warehouses. The warehouses to the east are arranged in three ranges with piended valley and pitched roofs, and feature prominent patter plates between floors. Bars are fitted to the windows. Painted brick ranges have stone cills and buff brick surrounds, with stone used on the ground floor of earlier buildings. Piended slate roofs cover the maltings and mash house, while sheet roofing is used elsewhere.

Interior inspection in 2013 revealed original machinery in the main distillery buildings, including eight large barrel washbacks in the tun room. Later modifications for 20th century distilling practices are evident, including metal gantries and brick infill structures. Three copper stills dating from 1962 were stolen circa 2008. The warehouses and malt store have single, open-plan spaces on each floor, notable for their construction using I-beam metal support columns with saddles, timber flitch beams, and plain round cast-iron columns to the upper floors. Widely spaced floorboards throughout enabled ventilation, and the walls are whitewashed with brick internal partitions and remnants of timber rails for trolley trucks.