Cloak, Cloak Road, Kilmacolm

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.