Lochhead Distillery

About the distillery (in brief)

Lochhead Distillery was located on Lochend Street in Campbeltown and formed part of the dense concentration of distilleries that made the town famous. Today, the distillery itself is gone, but the former bonded warehouse still stands as a remaining trace of the site. Above all, the place tells the story of an earlier industrial environment, where whisky and storage buildings were a natural part of the townscape.

History

Lochhead Distillery is tied to Campbeltown’s whisky history, in which installation after installation stood closely packed in the town. The earliest specific information in the material dates from 26 April 1899, when the Campbeltown Town Council considered plans for kilns, grain lofts, warehouses, and other buildings for Lochhead Distillery on Lochend Street for J. B. Sherriff & Co. Ltd. The architect was H. E. Clifford from Glasgow. Later, at an inspection in 2009, the distillery had already been demolished. At that time, a TESCO store stood on the site, while the associated bonded warehouse still existed, albeit without a roof. This gives the site a clear dual character: as a vanished distillery and as a preserved fragment of the industrial whisky history of Campbeltown.

Visit the distillery

The distillery cannot be visited as an active whisky production site, because the facility has been demolished. However, you can still see the historical footprint on the site, where the former bonded warehouse remains standing without a roof. The visit experience is therefore connected to the landscape and the preserved traces rather than guided tours, tastings, or a functioning visitor center.