Large grain whisky distillery complex. Chimney stalk built circa 1870-1880, landmark exactly aligned with Shandwick Place. Circular section, approximately 300 feet tall, top formerly as flared funnel, now reduced slightly and rebuilt in yellow brick.

Power house and office back on to it in red brick. Duty-free warehouses to left.

Built for Graham Menzies & Co, 1855 merged with DCL 1884. For many years the largest or second largest distillery in Scotland. In 1887 employed 220 and produced 2,000,000 gallons. It was considered by Barnard that 'in all respects it may be called the model distillery of Europe, as it contains every improvement of machinery and new patent known in distilling and fully justifies the appellation'.

The best preserved of Scotland's big grain whisky distilleries, having changed little externally since the 1880s; notable particularly for its complete still house and its chimney, amongst the biggest of Victorian chimneys surviving in Scotland. The distillery closed in 1988.

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