Rockcliffe, 12 Kilbarchan Road, Bridge Of Weir

Rockcliffe East, located at 12A Kilbarchan Road in Bridge of Weir, is a double villa built in 1880 with alterations and additions made in 1901 by James Miller. This two-storey building showcases a blend of Arts and Crafts and neo-Tudor architectural styles. It features a symmetrical design with cream sandstone ashlar, a grey slated roof adorned with red ridge tiles, and overhanging eaves supported by brackets. The exterior includes half-timbering with painted decoration, especially prominent on the northern front, and a combination of plate-glass and coloured lead glass windows.

The northern garden elevation has three bays, with the central bay recessed between two advanced gables. The right gable has angles that are chamfered at the ground level and is corbelled to a square shape above. Elaborate half-timbering and decorative full-height bay windows project from the northern gables, with the ground floor being canted and featuring distinctive timber detailing resembling diamond-pointed rustication above. There is a rectangular projecting window above on the first floor, which is a six-light window divided by a single transom into twelve panes. This window juts out on simple timber angle brackets, with a decorative dentilled cornice below and painted decoration on the timber apron panels beneath the first-floor windows, which sweep outwards to a jettied half-timbered gable-head above.

The eastern and western elevations are identical and feature two-storey projecting gabled bays at the rear (southern side). There are flat-roofed single-storey timber entrance porches with bracketed eaves in the northeast and northwest re-entrant angles, which are additions from 1901. Above the entrance vestibules, there is a three-light mullioned window and a three-light flat-roofed dormer window. The northern elevation has a blind gabled bay with a shallow-advanced central chimney-breast, which includes a sculptured stone panel to the east and rises as a stack through the deeply overhanging eaves of the wallhead gable.

The southern elevation is not visible, and the interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1991.