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Hill House, Mackintosh
Building, Scotland: Architecture
Rennie
Mackintosh:
Hill House, Helensburgh, Scotland
Location: Upper Colquhoun Street, Helensburgh, north-west of Glasgow
Rennie Mackintosh: 1902-1904
Hill House was designed for publisher Walter Blackie. After the Glasgow
Art School, The Hill House is one of Mackintosh's best known works. It
is a powerful light-grey rendered house but quite a trip from Glasgow
- if staying there probably best to allow an afternoon.
The facades at Hill House are typically strong with the limited apertures
articulated with characteristic grids, and subtle non-orthogonal elements
such as the chimney. Mackintosh's style is often seen as not only related
to fin-de-siecle Art Nouveau but to the burgeoning Modern Architecture
movement.

Hill House - scanned image © adrian welch 2001
This project typically works with the Scottish traditional architecture,
often referred to as the Scots Baronial, the rustic architecture of towers
and crow steps.
Hill House is run by the National Trust for Scotland and is close to Loch
Lomond, around half an hour's drive north-west from Glasgow.
Contact Hill House: +44 (0)1436 673900 thehillhouse@nts.org.uk
Opening Times:
25th Mar - 31st Oct 1:30pm - 5:30pm
Tea room open 1.30 - 4.30pm
Admission:
Adults £8 Concs £5 Family £20
Access:
By train from Glasgow Queen Street, then taxi from Helensburgh Central
Station; or by car along A82
Buildings in the general area:
Edwin Lutyens House Ferry Inn, Rosneath,
by Helensburgh - private
Lomond Shores Balloch
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