View from W showing parts of WNW and SSW fronts
SC 791769
Description View from W showing parts of WNW and SSW fronts
Date 1979
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 791769
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content The Hill House, Upper Colquhoun Street, Helensburgh, Argyll & Bute, from west This view from the west, taken in 1979, shows the garden front of the building, looking through the main gates. The square recesses in the gate piers and the design of the wrought-iron gates are typical of Mackintosh's work, as is the simplicity and severity of the treatment of the house. 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.
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