Sites and Monument Record: Rosebank Distillery (SMR 1028)

Description
Situated beside the Forth & Clyde Canal at Camelon on the grounds of Tophill.
Red brick buildings facing onto the canal and backing onto the road, grouped around an interior courtyard.
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Object detail

Site type
building
distillery
malting
saw mill/ timber yard
Site status
Listed B
Site history notes
Rosebank Distillery was recorded in 1817 when it was worked by James Robertson. It moved to the present site in 1840 when James Rankine, a grocer, acquired the maltings of the Camelon Distillery. 5 years later the buildings were considerably enlarged. They were rebuilt "in a modern form" in 1864, with the offices added later. In 1868 Rankine demolished the now closed Camelon Distillery on the opposite bank of the canal, and built maltings there. Rosebank House stood to the E of the main distillery.

The bonded warehouse, on the south side of the main Street, was built c1900 on the site of a timber yard called Woodville. It was sold to Whitbread & Co for conversion into a Beefeater Steakhouse in 1987. The adjoining Woodvale Cottage was demolished, as was the western end of the warehouse. Additional windows and doorways were slapped in, but the building retained its essential character.
The works were moth-balled by United Distillers in 1995 and in 2005/6 the northern and eastern parts of the complex were demolished and flats were built along the canal bank.
Site conservation date
1864
Site grid ref
NS 876 803
NS 8749 8025
NS 8754 8033
Conservation status
Victorian

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