Beechwood, 4 Eglinton Terrace, Skelmorlie

Circa 1859. 2-storey and attic, 4-bay, rectangular-plan, multi-gabled Tudor style house with 2-storey canted bay window to W, arched windows to attic, stone-mullioned bipartite windows with bracketed canopies at 1st floor of E and W elevations, deep eaves, plain bargeboards and scrolled cast-iron gable finials. Squared, snecked, stugged red sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Raised, chamfered window margins with projecting cills; raised quoin-strips.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central 2-leaf timber panelled door with fanlight in plain chamfered architrave; small stone canopy above. Gable to right with 2-storey, 3-light canted bay window; round-arched window to gable apex. Gable to left of centre: advanced tripartite window to ground; bipartite window above with bracketed canopy; arched window to gable apex. Lower, slightly recessed service wing to outer left; square hoodmould to 1st floor window.

E (ROAD) ELEVATION: irregularly fenestrated elevation with variety of window shapes. Half-glazed timber boarded back door to left-hand gable; basket-arched staircase window; bipartite window to 1st floor; round-arched window to attic. Bipartite windows at both floors to right-hand gable. Hoodmoulded 1st floor window to service wing.

N AND S (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: 2 round-arched windows at ground floor and attic to S. Timber-boarded back door with fanlight to N; bipartite gabled dormer above.

Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows; some 4-pane glazing to E. Corniced ridge stacks with octagonal yellow clay cans. Graded grey slate.

INTERIOR: half-glazed timber panelled door to lobby. Marble chimneypieces to principal rooms. Curved timber staircase with decorative cast-iron baluster and mahogany handrail. Decorative cornicing and some ceiling roses to principal rooms; plainer cornicing elsewhere; some working shutters; timber-panelled interior doors throughout.

ANCILLARY BUILDING: single-storey former coalshed or out-store with timber-boarded stable door, crenellated parapet, and window to E. Curved wall to W, formerly forming screened link to house.

GARDEN TERRACE AND STEPS: terraced garden with sandstone steps.