Beechwood, 4 Eglinton Terrace, Skelmorlie

Beechwood is a large house dating to around 1859, constructed in a Tudor style. It is a two-storey and attic building with a rectangular footprint and four bays. A two-storey canted bay window projects from the west side, and there are arched windows in the attic. The house features stone-mullioned windows with bracketed canopies on the east and west elevations, deep eaves, plain bargeboards, and scrolled cast-iron gable finials.

The exterior is constructed from squared, snecked, stugged red sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Window margins are raised and chamfered, with projecting cills, and there are raised quoin strips. The main west-facing elevation has a central two-leaf timber panelled door with a fanlight, sheltered by a small stone canopy. A gable to the right contains a two-storey, three-light canted bay window; the gable apex has a round-arched window. A tripartite window is advanced on the ground floor of the left-hand gable, with a bipartite window above featuring a bracketed canopy, and another round-arched window in the gable apex. A lower, recessed wing is on the far left.

The east-facing (road) elevation is irregularly fenestrated with a variety of window shapes, including a half-glazed timber boarded back door to the left-hand gable, a basket-arched staircase window, a bipartite window to the first floor, and a round-arched attic window. Bipartite windows are located at both floors of the right-hand gable. The service wing features a hoodmoulded first-floor window.

The north and south side elevations have two round-arched windows at ground floor and attic level on the south side. A timber-boarded back door with fanlight is located on the north side, with a bipartite gabled dormer above.

Most of the windows are timber sash and case, with plate glass, though some retain four-pane glazing. The house has corniced ridge stacks topped with octagonal yellow clay cans, and a graded grey slate roof.

Inside, the property features a half-glazed timber panelled door to the lobby. Marble fireplaces are found in the principal rooms, along with a curved timber staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters and a mahogany handrail. Decorative cornicing and ceiling roses are present in the principal rooms, with plainer cornicing elsewhere. Original working shutters and timber-panelled interior doors are also features.

An ancillary single-storey building, formerly a coalshed or out-store, has a timber-boarded stable door, a crenellated parapet, and a window on the east side. A curved wall on the west side originally formed a screened link to the main house. A terraced garden with sandstone steps is also present.