Holmwood House | |
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Holmwood House | |
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General information | |
Architectural style | Greek Revival |
Town or city | Glasgow |
Country | Scotland |
Construction started | 1857 |
Completed | 1858 |
Cost | £3,682 |
Client | James Couper |
Technical details | |
Structural system | masonry |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Alexander Thomson |
Listed Building – Category A | |
Official name | 61, 63 Netherlee Road, "Holmwood" |
Designated | 17 June 1967 |
Reference no. | LB33944 |
Holmwood House is the finest and most elaborate residential villa designed by the Scottish architect Alexander "Greek" Thomson. It is also rare in retaining much of its original interior decor, and being open to the public. A Category A listed building, the villa is located at 61-63 Netherlee Road, Cathcart, in the southern suburbs of Glasgow, and is owned by the National Trust for Scotland.
Holmwood is considered to be immensely influential by several architectural historians, because the design as published in Villa and Cottage Architecture: select examples of country and suburban residence recently erected in 1868[1] may have influenced Frank Lloyd Wright and other proto-modernist architects.