Gribloch, Kippen, Stirling, Scotland, Highlands, Architect, Date, Location

Scottish Basil Spence Building

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Date built: 1938-39
Architect: Sir Basil Spence (1907-76)

Highland Country House designed for John Colville, a Glasgow steel magnate.
Gribloch is located 1km south west of Kippen near Stirling and forms a Y-shape in plan as was fashionable at the time for country houses - for example many of Edwin Lutyens' houses.

Although the house has white-rendered walls and flat roofs in true Modernist style, its interior flirts with Scottish vernacular and English Regency details.



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John Colville's wife hailed from the USA and Gribloch includes an early version of a (American-style) fitted kitchen.



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