Rosebank Distillery, Camelon Road, Falkirk

Circa 1840 with earlier fabric, rebuilt 1864-5, with early and mid-20th century additions and alterations. Large multi-phase former distillery complex to roughly triangular site adjacent to the Forth and Clyde Canal to the side of Lock 11 at Camelon including still house, malt house, tun room, chimney, malt store, maltings and other associated buildings.

Camelon Road frontage consists of range of 2 and 3-storey brick buildings, part rendered, incorporating 3-storey tun room (now 1-storey internally) with evidence of top floor louvred refrigeration room. 3 large wooden worm tubs in front of set-back still house with 3 stills (triple distillation), boiler room, still house and mash house. Tall circular section red brick chimney stack with top section rebuilt in brick in 1980s. Rendered and painted brick buildings facing to the west corner of the site. The buildings to the canalside incorporate 2 three-storey ranges of duty free warehouses with a gateway between. Range to the west is 8-bay, red brick former malt store, (with masonry ground to the floor from earlier construction) with piended slated roof. Central pend entrance to courtyard between it and the brick east range formed by a 10-bay section and further wide 4 bay canted section beyond of bonded warehouses. The warehouses to the east of the pend are 3 ranges wide with piended valley and pitched roofs. Prominent pattras plates between floors. Bars to windows.

Painted brick ranges with stone cills and buff brick surrounds, stone to ground floor from earlier buildings. Piended slate roofs to maltings and mash house, sheet roofing elsewhere.

INTERIOR: The interior was seen in 2013. Some original interior machinery to main distillery buildings include 8 large barrel washbacks to tun room with various later modifications to interiors for 20th century distilling practices including some metal high level gantries and later brick infill structures throughout. 3 copper stills from 1962 lost to theft circa 2008. Single open plan spaces to each floor of warehouses and malt store with unusual construction of I-beam metal support columns with saddles supporting timber flitch beams, and plain round cast-iron columns to upper floors. Widely spaced floorboards throughout for ventilation, whitewashed walls, brick internal partitions and remnants of timber rails for trolley trucks.