On our trip west last April, as well as taking in the Willow Tea Rooms  (see previous posts) we also visited the Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed Hill House again.

It’s undergoing evaluation for remediation of the water ingress problems it was suffering from. I showed the cage it has been shrouded in here.

You can see some of the interior features in various posts I made in 2022. Look for Hill House in my search box.

Gates to Hill House:-

Information Boards:-

Some of the harling removed as part of the investigation into procedures to remediate the water ingress problem:-

Adjacent gable:-

Patch as part of remediation investigations:-

Two windows:-

Vertical window:-

Wall plaque (which looks like a design by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, wife to Charles Rennie Mackintosh):-

Upper Level:-

Fireplace, upper level:-

Seating, upper level:-

Seating:-

Fireplaces, lower level:-

Balcony from below:-

Glass partition at stairs:-

Stairs:-

Lower floor from top of stairs:-

Lower level from balcony:-

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These Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed tea rooms – for the famous Miss Cranston – were privately refurbished in the past few years but are now in the care of the National Trust for Scotland and seem to go by the name Mackintosh at the Willow, but that’s also the title of the affiliated gift shop next door.

We visited them because we hadn’t been there before but also to have lunch; which was excellent.

Sauchiehall Street was having work done on it at the time:-

In the photo above you can make out the circular design fronting the windows. This is a close-up:-

The Tea Rooms’ street sign:-

Internal lighting gantry:-

Wall frieze and partition wall below:-

These window curtains help diners escape scrutiny from outside:-

Comrie is a village in Perth and Kinross, lying almost halfway between Crieff and Loch Earn.

It has on its High Street a Charles Rennie Mackintosh building, complete with corner turret and the sort of external render familiar from Hill House. Not exactly the sort of thing you’d expect to see in a small Perthsire village.

The church in the background above is perhaps Comrie’s most prominent building, best seen from the bridge over the River Earn. For obvious reasons this, the former parish kirk, is known as the White Church. It is dedicated to the obscure saint, Kessog:-

Original fabrics at Hill House, some by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh:-

Closer views:-

Display room, Hill House:-

Mackintosh style modern stuff for sale:-

Charles Rennie Mackintosh ‘Rose’ design biscuits in café:-

More Charles Rennie Mackintosh designs from Hill House.

Seating Niche:-

Upper room door:-

Circular table:-

Table and chairs (on different visit):-

Door and decoration:-

Child’s room door:-

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Mantelpieces:-

Bench. Early photographs of Hill House on wall:-

Beds:-

Child’s bed:-

Wall decoration:-

Shelves:-

Bed:-

Bed cover:-

Decoration:-

Bedside table:-

A photo of the wardrobe in Walter Blackie’s bedroom is in this post.

As well as the fireplace in the Drawing Room of Hill House, Helensburgh there are several examples of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s attention to detail with such household fixtures.

Fireplace in study. Note also clock:-

Mrs Blackie’s bedroom fireplace:-

Another upper room fireplace:-

Child’s room fireplace:-

More upper room fireplaces:-

Unmistakable Mackintosh style chair:-

Chair in upper room:-

Chair back, Dining Room:-

Dining room clock:-

Walter Blackie’s Bedroom Wardrobe. Mackintosh designed the wardrobe which was built so that Blackie’s chest of drawers would fit into it:-