Hill House Architecture : Information + Images

Location: Upper Colquhoun Street, Helensburgh, north-west of Glasgow Date built: 1902-04 Charles Rennie Mackintosh Architect photographs © Adrian Welch 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: Phone: +44 (0)1436 673900 E-mail: thehillhouse@nts.org.uk Opening Times: 25th Mar - 31st Oct 1:30pm - 5:30pm Tea room open 1.30 - 4.30pm Access: By train from Glasgow Queen Street, then taxi from Helensburgh Central Station; or by car along A82.