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ARTIST'S IMPRESSION
The Ladybank Distillery - click to see the surrounding area
ELEVATIONS
Front elevation
Side elevation
Side elevation
SITE PLAN
THE LOCAL AREA
The distillery site benefits from spring water that falls on the hills surrounding the fertile plain known as the Howe of Fife, which lies between the ancient royal market town of Cupar and the Lomond Hills.
The Ladybank Company of Distillers Club have taken a 25 Year lease, with an option to extend, of a beautiful site that contains fine old stone farm buildings built around a courtyard (previously a mill with water driven mill wheel). These buildings are being converted into both clubrooms for members to relax in when then visit, and the malting and distilling operation rooms for the production of Single Malt Whisky from locally grown barley.
The site also contains a secret and historic Victorian Garden that will be restored as part of the club grounds, along with riverside walks and areas for outside entertainment.
 Ladybank is a small village in the centre of the county of Fife, a region of Scotland that was once an ancient Pictish Kingdom, which has many historic market towns and delightful seaside villages. Seventeen centuries ago the relics of St Andrew were brought to the town that now bears his name and is recognised as The Home of Golf. When visiting Fife you move in the very shadow of Scottish history.
All around the distillery site are rolling, fertile fields and in the distance wilder upland areas. Fife was for centuries the coveted and jealously guarded granary of Scotland and Fife barley will be used to create the new spirit that will become Ladybank Single Malt Whisky.
THE LANDSCAPE AND THE DISTILLERY
Scotch Whisky is now big business and traditions have changed. The ethos of production at Ladybank will be to take whisky distilling back to its roots and this means caring for our local landscape and for the environment.
The Club has appointed a leading Scottish Landscape Architect to ensure that we preserve and retain all the charm of the distillery setting in the most appropriate way. With the stream flowing through the distillery grounds and the adjoining barley fields there is a magical atmosphere - set apart from the rush of modern life and suited to the calm, studied approach of crafting something special. The Club will restore, regenerate and be responsible for the highest standards as it works to create a setting for Scotland's smallest whisky producer.
FIFE'S WHISKY HERITAGE
Fife's whisky distilling traditions are plentiful. Nearby the earliest written record of Scotch Whisky production, dating from 1494 stated that Friar Corr ordered 'eight bolls of malt that to make of aquae vitae'
Within sight of the distillery lived Colonel Haig of the famous Haig whisky dynasty. The Haigs established a whisky revolution by installing continuous stills at their Seggie distillery and at one time Fife had five operational Distilleries and even more numerous Maltings with their pagoda roofs alongside traditional malting floors.
Now there are currently no malt distilleries remaining in Fife, and Ladybank will thus be unique; the only distillery that sources all of the barley that it uses from its own local area, and to make malt whisky again in the ancient Kingdom of Fife.
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