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Hill, Oliver
(b London, 15 June 1887; d Sapperton, Glos, 28 May 1968). English architect. On the advice of Sir Edwin Lutyens, a family friend, he first worked for a builder in London and was then articled to the architect William Flockhart (1854–1913). From 1909 to 1911 he also attended the Architectural Association evening school in London where he designed elaborate, finely draughted classical schemes. His principal early work involved garden design and house additions at Moor Close (1910–13), Binfield, Berks, a rich, eclectic baroque ensemble. After serving in World War I, he returned to his practice and designed Cour (1922), Kintyre, Argyll, a stone country house, low-lying and picturesque. During the 1920s he became a fashionable architect who used neo-vernacular and Neo-Georgian styles, with simple interiors exploiting colour and texture, for example at Woodhouse Copse (1926), Holmbury St Mary, Surrey.
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