Hill House (Helensburgh)

Hill House is a mansion in the Scottish town of Helensburgh. The building is located in the Upper Colquhoun Street on the northern edge of the city. In 1971 the villa was added to the Scottish lists of monuments in the highest category A.

The building was completed in 1904 after two years of construction. As an architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh was responsible for planning. It is on a hill and overlooks the Firth of Clyde and is regarded as Mackintosh's most important residential buildings. Today's owner is the National Trust for Scotland, the historic building looked after. It homes have been created in the building that can be rented in the spring and summer. There are also reports of an apparition in the form of a black-clad person. The proposal would also perceptible in the library quite often the smell of pipe smoke, where the former owner Blackie usually smoked his pipe.

The Hill House recorded annually around 40,000 visitors. Consideration is to propose the building for inclusion in the list of world cultural heritage. The lying on the opposite side of the road, also a listed villa Drumadoon that has been empty for several years, meanwhile, referred to in the population as disrespectfully as Hell House Hell House.

Description

Hill House can not be clearly attributed to an architectural style. Rather, it combines elements of different flow, here under Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, Scottish Baronial and elements of Japanese architecture. The design is continued in the interior with decorative patterns and special -made Möbleln and textiles. The building is roughly on an L-shaped floor plan. It has two floors, but has a loft conversion. The facades are traditionally plastered with Harl. The windows are partially surrounded by cream-colored Sandsteinfaschen. The gable roofs are covered with shingles made ​​of gray slate.