View from NNW showing WNW and NNE fronts of main block

Description View from NNW showing WNW and NNE fronts of main block

Date 1979

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 791768

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content The Hill House, Upper Colquhoun Street, Helensburgh, Argyll & Bute, from north-west This view from the north-west, taken in 1979, shows the western gable of the house, with the principal entrance. The design is informed by an understanding of older Scottish buildings, but also of the English 'Arts and Crafts' movement. Its severity is a deliberate contrast to the surrounding richly detailed villas. The house is in Upper Helensburgh. The house was acquired in 1972 by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, who handed it on to The National Trust for Scotland. It is now open to the public in the summer months. This house was built in 1902 for W W Blackie, a noted Glasgow printer and publisher, to designs by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. It is unquestionably his finest house, with a rather severe harled exterior in a stripped Scots Baronial style. The interiors are unmistakably Mackintosh, at his best. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CTH71

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