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Mossyde, Kilmacolm

M271 Mossyde, Kilmacolm

Address: Cloak Road, Kilmacolm PA13 4SD
Date: 1906–7; 1908–9; 1912–15
Client: H. B. Collins
Authorship: Authorship category 1 (Mackintosh) (Mackintosh)

Colour photograph of S. wing of Mossyde

1906
September: Drawing for ploughman's cottage at Cloak for Hugh Brown Collins made by Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh. 1
5 November: Collins applies to the county planning authority for permission to build. 2
14 December: Approval granted by county planning authority. 3
1907
21 January: Tender received for 'preliminary mason work'. 4
1908
14 March: Collins applies to the county planning authority for permission to build an addition to the cottage at Cloak – variously called Cloak Cottage or Mossyde on the drawings – consisting of six apartments plus attics, designed by Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh. 5
24 March: First payment made to mason for work on addition. 6
7 April: Approval granted by county planning authority. 7
14 December: Final payment to mason. 8
1909
18 January: Final payment to slater. 9
1912
Mackintosh makes drawings for a further addition in the form of a three-storey tower at the N. side of the house, incorporating a datestone inscribed '1912'. Not carried out. 10
1913
Mackintosh exhibits drawings for 'Mossyde, Kilmacolm' at Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts (100, 102).
9–10 April: Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh make drawings for two-storey N. wing. 11
19 or 20 May: Collins applies to the county planning authority for permission to build N. wing, naming Mackintosh as architect. 12
10 June: Approval granted by county planning authority. 13
17 November: Mackintosh makes a site visit, and writes in his Sketcher's Notebook about the proposed addition of pantries to the original entrance front. 14
1915
19 March or 19 May: Payments made for joiner, slater, plumber and plaster work at this time suggest the addition designed in 1913 was complete. 15
1926
Before 5 November: A. D. Hislop, architect, of 124 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, makes drawings for the addition of a single-storey washing-house for W. Farquhar. 16
1955
April–May: Survey drawings made by John B. Wingate, prior to unspecified alterations. 17
Late 1950s or early 1960s
E.-facing windows enlarged by removal of splayed reveals. 18

Notes:

1: Hiroaki Kimura, 'Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Architectural Drawings', unpublished PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 1982, pp. 53–5, 222. The original drawing is lost and known only from photographs.

2: Paisley, Renfrewshire Council Planning Department: County of Renfrew, Second or Lower District, register of new buildings 1899–1929, p. 26, no. 483.

3: Paisley, Renfrewshire Council Planning Department: County of Renfrew, Second or Lower District, register of new buildings 1899–1929, p. 26, no. 483.

4: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh job book, GLAHA 53062, p. 130.

5: Paisley, Renfrewshire Council Planning Department: County of Renfrew, Second or Lower District, register of new buildings 1899–1929, p. 30, no. 544.

6: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh job book, GLAHA 53062, p. 130.

7: Paisley, Renfrewshire Council Planning Department: County of Renfrew, Second or Lower District, register of new buildings 1899–1929, p. 30, no. 544.

8: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh job book, GLAHA 53062, p. 130.

9: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh job book, GLAHA 53062, p. 130.

10: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: GLAHA 41852 (M271-015); GLAHA 41897 (M271-014); GLAHA 41898 (M271-013); GLAHA 41899 (M271-010); GLAHA 41900 (M271-011); GLAHA 41901(M271-012).

11: The original drawings are lost and known only from photographs: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Mossyde research file.

12: Paisley, Renfrewshire Council Planning Department: County of Renfrew, Second or Lower District, register of new buildings 1899–1929, p. 42, no. 789.

13: Paisley, Renfrewshire Council Planning Department: County of Renfrew, Second or Lower District, register of new buildings 1899–1929, p. 42, no. 789.

14: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Sketcher's Notebook, GLAHA 53015/63.

15: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh job book, GLAHA 53063, p.119.

16: University of Glasgow Library, Department of Special Collections: MS Hislop 289/3. Hislop's plan is not dated, but is inscribed 'Copy sent to Woodrow, 5.XI.26.', probably a reference to the contractor John Woodrow of Bridge of Weir.

17: Hiroaki Kimura, 'Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Architectural Drawings', unpublished PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 1982, p. 315, pp. 336–8.

18: Anne Toomey, 'Scotland: Cloak wrapped in mystery', Sunday Times, 23 March 2003: www.thesundaytimes.co.uk [accessed 27 February 2013].