Cottage, Coleburn Distillery is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 November 1987.

Cottage, Coleburn Distillery

WRENN ID
shadowed-rotunda-sorrel
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
Cottage, Coleburn Distillery, IV30 8SN
OS grid reference
NJ 240 552
Coordinates
57.58065, -3.27112
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Coleburn Distillery complex likely dates to the late 19th century and was probably designed by Charles Doig. The buildings are constructed of rubble with tooled ashlar dressings, and some of the rubble has been whitewashed.

The distillery 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 louvred ‘pagoda’ cupola, and the slightly lower barley drying kiln has an ogee slated roof.

The long, two-storey, 13-bay malt-barn projects at angles and has long, regular elevations facing roughly northwest and southeast, with a lower first floor. It is roofed with slate. There are also duty-free warehouses with gabled elevations facing roughly northeast and southwest; warehouse No. 1 has three-bay gable ends, and warehouse No. 2 has four bays. Both are slate-roofed.

The distillery office and Customs and Excise office is a single-storey, T-plan building with entrances to respective offices set in the re-entrant angles. It has gabled ends and a slate roof. A long, white-washed store, possibly a former piggery, is gutted internally and has a slate roof.

A single-storey, three-bay cottage features a central door, four-pane glazing, end stacks, and a slate roof. The manager's house is a late 19th-century, single-storey and attic, three-bay house facing southwest with a central door, two canted dormers, four-pane glazing, projecting gabled eaves, and end stacks. It is also slate-roofed.

Distillery cottages abutting the A941 road are not included in the listing. A long, white-washed store, divided internally and with pens to the frontage, is shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1905.

Local climate

Cottage, 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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