M271 Mossyde, Kilmacolm

Mossyde was built in three phases. First came a square, rubble-built cottage, which was later enlarged in two stages to form a substantial T-plan house. It is exceptional among Mackintosh's works for its simple, vernacular character.

Authorship: There is good evidence that Mackintosh was responsible for all three phases of the house: he signed the drawings for the first two phases and wrote the job-book entries for them, and he is named as architect of the third phase in the county planning authority's register of new buildings. He made a written record of a site visit in his Sketcher's Notebook in 1913, which appears to confirm that he designed the third phase.