Cloak, Cloak Road, Kilmacolm is a Grade B listed building in the Inverclyde local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 June 1971. House. 3 related planning applications.
Cloak, Cloak Road, Kilmacolm
- WRENN ID
- moated-groin-tallow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Inverclyde
- Constituency
- Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West MP: Martin McCluskey (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 June 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cloak, Cloak Road, Kilmacolm, PA13 4SD
- OS grid reference
- NS 352 719
- Coordinates
- 55.91272, -4.63671
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Cloak is a large, two-storey, T-plan house located in a secluded rural area, designed by the famous Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh between 1906 and 1915. The house originally started as a square plan cottage and was expanded in two stages. It reflects Scottish vernacular building styles with small windows and thick random rubble walls, which are highlighted by the deep, splayed reveals of the windows. The house features a slated roof with bell-cast eaves, and the window openings have irregular quoins made from roughly dressed boulders. Some of the window frames have been altered. The roofs are covered in overlapping grey slate.
Interior photographs from 2014 show that Mackintosh's distinctive fireplaces with T-shaped openings, along with built-in bedroom wardrobes and cupboards, have been preserved.
Local climate
Cloak, Cloak Road, Kilmacolm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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