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Site of a Distillery. Described by Hume in 1974 as 'A group of 1- 2- and 3-storey buildings, of various dates, dominated by a tall circular-section brick chimney. The most striking structure is a 2-storey and attic, 4-by 4-bay rubble warehouse and office building, built 1893 for Guthrie Martin and Co Ltd'. Moss and Hume note that this distillery was allegedly founded in 1820 and owned by Guthrie Martin and Co from 1825 to 1893 when it was incorporated as a limited company. The distillery was bought in 1922 by the Distillers Company Limited and W.H Holt and Co Ltd and was wound up. The site was then bought by Scottish Malt Distillers Ltd in the same year, and subsequently lay disused from 1928 to 1937. The distillery was in operation until 1983, when it was mothballed and demolished in piecemeal fashion until 1994. The site of the cooling pond is now beneath a funeral parlour and a supermarket (the building occupying almost exactly the footprint of the bonded warehouse shown on the OS maps from the (c.1888) 2nd edition OS map onwards) and its car park.
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Historic Environment Records (HER) 
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NO56SE0068 - NORTH PORT DISTILLERY, DISTILLERY ROAD, BRECHIN