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Project to dry out Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Hill House at ‘exciting’ stage

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A project to dry out Charles Rennie Mackintosh masterpiece the Hill House is working and has reached a “really exciting” stage, experts have said.

A giant steel box was built around the property in Helensburgh in 2019 to protect its saturated walls from further damage from the elements and enable it to gradually dry out as the first stage in a long-term

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