Blythswood Square Hotel, Glasgow 5 star Accommodation, Location, News
Blythswood Square Glasgow
West End Hotel: The Town House Collection – Strathclyde Accommodation, Scotland, UK
6 Mar 2013
Blythswood Square
Location: West End, off Bath Street, Glasgow, Scotland
Estimated cost: £17m
Blythswood Square Hotel Glasgow
Type: Redevelopment of Royal Scottish Automobile Club for The Town House Collection
Facilities: 5-star hotel + restaurant + bar + spa + leisure club + conference facilities
Developer: Town House Company
Buildings: six combined townhouses
Bedrooms: 88 proposed
Completion: Mar 2008
Demolition: West Regent Street facade + buildings to rear of site
Date of existing building: 1823; 1923-26 James Miller, architect
General view of the public realm context for this Glasgow 5 Star hotel:
photo © Adrian Welch
Blythswood Square Building
Refurbished 2005-06 to form serviced offices by Macdonald Kinnaird. The property was damaged by fire in 1895 and Rennie Mackintosh designed a new door and entrance hall. Former home of Glasgow Society of Lady Artists.
The Rally Bar at the Royal Scottish Automobile Club Glasgow is so-named after the Monte Carlo Rally which used to start at Blythswood Square many years ago.
First Town House Company hotel: Lundin Links, Hotel, Fife, Scotland
5 Blythswood Square
Design: Rennie Mackintosh, architect
photos © Adrian Welch
Website: Blythswood Square Hotel Glasgow – The Town House Collection
Town House Company property : Bonham Hotel, in Edinburgh, Scotland
Glasgow Hotel close by:
Marks Hotel – Bath Street accommodation
photo : Andrew Lee
Glasgow Hotel
picture from architect
Glasgow Transport Museum
picture from architect
James Miller also worked as architect on Central Hotel in 1901-6: Central Station Glasgow
picture : Guthrie Photography
The Town House Company are owners of Bonham Hotel, Channings, The Howard and The Edinburgh Residence, all in Edinburgh
CCA Glasgow
photo © Adrian Welch
Website: Glasgow
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