Blair Atholl Distillery, Perth Road, Pitlochry

The Blair Atholl Distillery, located on Perth Road, Pitlochry, is a complex of buildings dating to the early 19th century, rebuilt in the late 19th century, and subsequently altered and reconditioned between 1946 and 1949. It comprises a distillery alongside a former farmhouse and steading, constructed of rubble with squared rubble quoins, and featuring voussoired round- and segmental-arched openings.

The southwest range, running northwest to southeast, fronts Perth Road. The symmetrical three-bay former farmhouse (now meeting rooms) includes a slated porch and dormerheaded windows. To its right is a single-storey bay, followed by recessed link bays connecting to the farmhouse and a projecting M-gable with two round-headed windows. Further along is an advanced four-bay range with a broad carriage arch and stepped fenestration, culminating in a broad, buttressed gabled bay housing offices and a shop. The northeast (courtyard) elevations have been sympathetically altered to accommodate office and shop premises, incorporating a piended bay and a bay set back over the carriage arch.

The north (mash house) range also runs northwest to southeast, with a long, nine-bay, two-storey section to the left, characterized by symmetrical fenestration. A set-back three-storey range extends to the right, with further two-storey bays beyond. The range continues eastward, featuring a stepped roofline and a broad gabled bay displaying the lettering “BLAIR ATHOL DISTILLERY” facing the courtyard.

The visitor centre features cast-iron columns supporting a timber roof, and a traditional timber mash-tun. The processing plant includes Tun (fermentation) rooms containing four pine (and possibly larch) and four fibreglass ‘washbacks.’ Four copper stills (two spirit and two wash condensers) are present – two with a maker’s plate 'R G Abercrombie & Co Ltd/Engineers/Copper Smith/19 ALLOA 66', and a spirit-safe labelled 'Banffshire Copper Works/Alexr Grant/Dufftown'.

A small single-storey range, running northeast to southwest, serves as a reception area and has been sympathetically altered. A stepped, two-bay range fronts Kinnaird Burn to the northeast, including sluice gates.

The bonded warehouses consist of a filling store, bonded warehouse No 7 (a long, low, early M-gabled rubble range with small square windows and 2-leaf timber doors), and three broad gabled 20th-century warehouses, each with a central door, a circular-effect opening in the gablehead, and flanking buttresses to the northeast and southwest. The interior of the earlier warehouse features timber rafters supported on cast-iron columns.

Multi-pane glazing is largely used in timber framed windows, with some plate glass glazing in altered areas. The roofs are covered in grey slates, and the building has coped ashlar stacks and ashlar-coped skews. Decorative features include cast-iron downpipes and rainwater hoppers. Low rubble boundary walls, some coped, enclose the site.