Cloak, Cloak Road, Kilmacolm

Cloak is a large, two-storey, T-plan, house in a secluded rural location, designed by internationally renowned Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh between 1906 and 1915. The house, which began as a square plan cottage and was later enlarged in two stages, makes reference to Scottish vernacular building styles and traditions with small windows and massive random rubble walls (their thickness emphasised by the deep, splayed reveals of the small windows). The house has a slated roof with bell-cast eaves. Window openings have irregular quoins in the form of roughly dressed boulders. Some of the window frames have been altered. Roofs are covered in overlapping grey slate.

Photographs of the interior (taken in 2014, Mackintosh Architecture) indicate that Mackintosh's distinctive fireplaces with T-shaped openings, and built-in bedroom wardrobes and cupboards are retained.