Coleburn Distillery is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 November 1987. 18 related planning applications.
Coleburn Distillery
- WRENN ID
- steep-window-gold
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1987
- Address
- Coleburn Distillery, IV30 8SN
- OS grid reference
- NJ 240 553
- Coordinates
- 57.58159, -3.27201
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Coleburn Distillery, likely built in the late 19th century by Charles Doig, consists of a group of buildings constructed from rubble with tooled ashlar dressings, some of which have been whitewashed. The distillery complex includes a former barley drying kiln, a kiln, a tun room, a mash house, a filling store, and a malt barn.
The tall kiln features a distinctive louvred pagoda cupola. A slightly lower barley drying kiln is nearby, both buildings having ogee slated roofs. The long, two-storey, thirteen-bay malt barn projects at angles, with long, regular elevations facing roughly northwest and southeast, and a lower ground floor. It has a slate roof.
Duty-free warehouses are arranged with gabled elevations facing roughly northeast and southwest, with three bays at the gable end of warehouse number one and four bays at warehouse number two. These also have slate roofs.
The distillery office and Customs and Excise office form a single-storey, T-shaped building, with entrances to the respective offices located in the re-entrant angles. The building is gabled and has a slate roof. A long, whitewashed store, possibly a former piggery, exists, gutted internally and with a slate roof.
A single-storey, three-bay cottage features a central door, 4-pane glazing, end stacks, and a slate roof. The manager’s house, dating from the late 19th century, is a single-storey and attic structure with three bays facing southwest. It has a centre door, two canted dormers, 4-pane glazing, projecting gabled eaves, and end stacks, topped with a slate roof.
A long, whitewashed store, divided internally and with pens to the frontage, was shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1905. The distillery cottages abutting the A941 road are not included within the listed buildings.
Local climate
Coleburn Distillery sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 18 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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