The Glenmorangie Company are constructing a new Stillhouse along with additional mashing and fermentation creating a standalone ‘Distillery’ adjacent to their existing Stillhouse. The new Stillhouse will include, two copper stills which will replicate their existing still, the tallest in Scotland.

The ‘lighthouse’ as the project has been named due to the height and location of the new Stillhouse, adjacent to the Dornoch Firth.

The curtain walling which forms the primary fabric of the stillhouse consists of a composite wood panelling which incorporates wood from Glenmorangie casks. Salvaged stonework from the original cooperage building has been utilised on the adjacent mash house.

The project involved the demolition of the ‘old cooperage’ and ‘crown stone’. Stonework was salvaged for use within the new construction and elements of the building fabric were crushed and subsequently used under roads and hardstanding areas elsewhere on site.

The Architect is Barthelemy Grino an award winning Paris based Architect, Blyth & Blyth are the Civil and Structural designers.

The ‘standalone’ distillery which allow a modest increase in capacity but allow greater flexibility within the distillation process