Dalwhinnie Distillery is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 1986. 8 related planning applications.
Dalwhinnie Distillery
- WRENN ID
- solitary-pewter-rush
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1986
- Address
- Dalwhinnie Distillery, PH19 1AA
- OS grid reference
- NN 638 854
- Coordinates
- 56.93997, -4.23915
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dalwhinnie Distillery, dating back to around 1890, is a complex of buildings associated with whisky production. It suffered fire damage and was subsequently repaired in 1919. The main distillery range is a two-storey structure built of brick and rubble, all whitewashed. It includes a pair of malt kilns with distinctive swept and piended slate roofs, topped with pagoda louvres. Other components of the complex are a malt barn, mash house, tun room, and still house, all with slated roofs and ridge ventilators. A late 19th century bonded warehouse range, single-storey and in an L-shape, is also whitewashed and has slate roofs. The listing does not extend to any newer office buildings or distillery dwelling houses. The distillery sits within the Cairngorms National Park, and the boundary between the parishes of Dalwhinnie and Kingussie passes through the nearby village, to the south of the distillery.
References to the distillery can be found in John Hume's The Industrial Archaeology of Scotland (volume II, 1977, page 210).
Local climate
Dalwhinnie Distillery sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,410 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 89 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 70 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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