No. 17 — Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Hill House
| Artist | Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1868–1928 |
|---|---|
| Date | 1902–1904 |
| Medium | rough harled lime render over brick with timber interiors |
| City | Helensburgh |
| Location | Upper Colquhoun Street, Helensburgh, Scotland — owned by the National Trust for Scotland; enclosed in a protective shelter since 2019 while long-term conservation continues |
Mackintosh designed Hill House for publisher Walter Blackie from 1902, presenting to the Clyde estuary an austere grey harled mass whose asymmetric composition anticipated modernism, while inside he composed white panelled rooms with Margaret Macdonald, notably the rose-grey principal bedroom.
The experimental lime harl never dried properly, and the National Trust for Scotland raised a full-size weather enclosure over the building in 2019 for a drying-and-repair programme.
A pale grey geometric mass under low western light, with dark window openings and a single rose-sprigged white bedroom.
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