Husk Distillers at dusk: brick and white gables, an arched entry and a copper still among palms

North Tumbulgum, New South Wales

Husk Distillers

Rum distillery and cellar door

Designed 2011–2016

Completed 2019

A boutique distillery on a sugar cane farm beside the Tweed River, where Husk grows the cane for its rum. Brick gables, arched windows and a deep verandah give a working distillery the welcome of a farm homestead.

From cane to bottle

Distillery, bottling hall and cellar door under one set of roofs, with a crusher shed for the farm's own cane.

Made for visitors

A cellar door, commercial kitchen and amenities for tastings and tours, opening onto the verandah and lawns.

Planned to grow

A staged master plan, first drawn by hand in 2011, sets the distillery, visitor centre and future buildings along the ridge.

Visit Husk Distillers ↗The cellar door is open to visitors at 1152 Dulguigan Road, North Tumbulgum.

The brick gable with the Husk Distillers sign above an arched window and a verandah set with tables — The cellar door

The arched entry at dusk, with a copper still lit beside the path — The entry and the copper still

The still house under a tall gabled roof with skylights: copper pot and column stills on a steel platform, stainless steel tanks alongside — The still house

Visitors at tables under a timber-framed verandah roof beside the brick cellar door building — Under the verandah

Hand-coloured site plan on yellow trace: the distillery buildings, visitor centre, amphitheatre, car park and water treatment ponds set among trees along the ridge — Site plan · coloured pencil on yellow trace, 2011

Project team

Architect

Redshed Architects, Brenton Rasheed

Redshed team

Kevin Green

Interiors and architectural drafting

Sonia Leith, Leithal Designs

Landscape architect

Duncan Gibbs

Structural engineers

Cozens Regan Williams Prove

Civil engineers

Northrop

Surveyor

Ed Hudson

Electrical, mechanical and fire engineers

Peter Eustace & Associates

Acoustic consultants (distillery plant noise)

Vipac Engineers & Scientists

Hydraulic engineers

Chilton Woodward & Associates

Building certifiers

Coastline Building Certification Group

Client

Paul Messenger, Husk Distillers

Photos courtesy of Husk Distillers.