Hill House
The Hill House is a private villa in Helensburgh, Scotland, designed between 1902 and 1904 by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: Museum
- Description: home in Helensburgh, Scotland designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
- Also known as: “Helensburgh, Upper Colquhoun Street, The Hill House”, “Helensburgh, Upper Colquhoun Street, The Hill House, Outbuilding”, “Helensburgh, Upper Colquhoun Street, The Hill House, Outbuildings”, “Hill House, Helensburgh”, and “The Hill House”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Helensburgh Upper railway station and Helensburgh Central railway station.
Helensburgh Upper railway station
Railway station
Photo: Richard Sutcliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Helensburgh Upper railway station serves the town of Helensburgh, Scotland, on the north shore of the Firth of Clyde to the west of Glasgow. It is located in a residential area uphill from the town centre and is by far the smaller of the town's two stations. Helensburgh Upper railway station is situated 1,800 feet south of Hill House.
Helensburgh Central railway station
Railway station
Photo: Richard Sutcliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Helensburgh Central railway station serves the town of Helensburgh on the north shore of the Firth of Clyde, near Glasgow, Scotland. The station is a terminus on the North Clyde Line, sited 24 miles 31 chains from Glasgow Queen Street, measured via Singer and Maryhill. Helensburgh Central railway station is situated 1 mile south of Hill House.
Scottish Submarine Centre
Museum
The Scottish Submarine Centre is a submarine naval museum in west Scotland. Scottish Submarine Centre is situated 1 mile south of Hill House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Helensburgh and Craigendoran.
Helensburgh
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Helensburgh is a town in Argyll and Bute, on the north bank of the River Clyde 30 miles west of Glasgow, at the opening of Gare Loch. It developed from the 19th century once ferries and the railway connected it to Glasgow: wealthy business people built their villas here, and made sure to keep heavy industry away from their bosky avenues.
Craigendoran
Suburb
Photo: william craig, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Craigendoran is a suburb at the eastern end of Helensburgh in Scotland, on the northern shore of the Firth of Clyde. The name is from the Gaelic for "the rock of the otter".
Rhu
Village
Photo: Brian D Osborne, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rhu is a village and historic parish on the east shore of the Gare Loch in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The traditional spelling of its name was Row, but it was changed in the 1920s so that outsiders would pronounce it correctly. Rhu is situated 2 miles west of Hill House.
Hill House
Latitude
56.01702° or 56° 1′ 1″ northLongitude
-4.72808° or 4° 43′ 41″ westLevels
2Operator
National Trust for ScotlandOpen location code
9C8Q278C+RQOpenStreetMap ID
way 225393555OpenStreetMap feature
building=houseOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q654780
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Hill House” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Hill House”
- Dutch: “Hill House”
- French: “Hill House, Helensburgh”
- French: “Hill House”
- German: “Hill House, Helensburgh”
- German: “Hill House”
- Italian: “Hill House”
- Japanese: “ヒル・ハウス”
- Portuguese: “Hill House”
- Scots: “Hill House, Milligs Mill”
- Scots: “Hill House”
- Spanish: “Hill House”
- Ukrainian: “Хілл Хаус, Геленсбург”
- Ukrainian: “Хілл-Хаус”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hill House and Blackhill Plantation.
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