Hill House (Helensburgh)
Hill House is a villa in the Scottish town of Helensburgh . The building is on Upper Colquhoun Street on the northern edge of town. In 1971 the villa was included in the Scottish Monuments List 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 the planning. Located on a hill overlooking the Firth of Clyde , it is considered Mackintosh's premier residential building. The current owner is the National Trust for Scotland , which looks after historic buildings. Apartments have been set up in the building, which can be rented in spring and summer. There is also a report of a ghostly apparition in the form of a person dressed in black. In addition, the smell of pipe smoke is said to be often noticeable in the library, where the former owner Blackie usually smoked his pipe.
The Hill House has around 40,000 visitors annually. There are considerations to propose the building for inclusion in the list of world cultural heritage . According to newspaper reports, the house is in such poor condition that 15 years have been set for renovation (until 2035); the then new exterior plaster in connection with the rainy and stormy weather should be responsible for this. For this purpose, a kind of sarcophagus was built by the architecture firm Carmody Groarke . However, the Hill House is still open to visitors.
The Villa Drumadoon on the opposite side of the street, which is also a listed building and has been vacant for several years, is now disrespectfully referred to as the Hell House by the population .
description
Hill House cannot be clearly assigned to any architectural style. Rather, it combines elements of different currents, including Arts and Crafts , Art Nouveau , Scottish Baronial and elements of Japanese architecture. The design continues in the interiors with decorative patterns and specially made furniture and textiles. The building has a roughly L-shaped floor plan. It is two-story, but has a converted attic. The facades are traditionally plastered with Harl . The windows are partly of cream-colored sandstone window surrounds framed. The gable roofs are covered with shingles made of gray slate.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ a b c d Information from the National Trust for Scotland ( Memento of April 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Evelyn Pschak: Cursed Villa. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . January 31, 2020, accessed February 2, 2020 .
- ^ The Hill House Box , accessed February 2, 2020
- ^ Hill House v Hell House: residents oppose plan to develop historic property. The Herald , March 30, 2013, accessed July 17, 2013
Web links
- Entry on Hill House in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 56 ° 1 '1.4 " N , 4 ° 43' 41" W.