Castlehill (Glasgow)

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Castlehill is a villa in the Scottish city ​​of Glasgow . In 1970 the building was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A.

description

The villa was built around 1870 for the merchant Robert Young . The brothers Alexander and George Thomson are responsible for the planning .

Castlehill is on Nithsdale Road in the south Pollokshields district of Glasgow . The one to two-story villa is designed in the distinctive Thomsonian Egyptian-Greek style. It has an irregular floor plan and is not constructed symmetrically. The masonry consists of hewn and polished stone blocks. Various windows are decorated with pilasters . Flat extensions go off on both sides. The overhanging, slate-covered roofs have a flat slope. Castlehill shows numerous design parallels with the adjacent Thomson Villa Ellisland .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. Entry on scottisharchitects.org.uk

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Coordinates: 55 ° 50 ′ 31.8 "  N , 4 ° 17 ′ 12.7"  W.