St Margaret's, 7-9 Eglinton Terrace, Skelmorlie

1. 2-storey, 3-bay, L-plan villa with 2-storey bow windows to front, red-tiled gabled roof; decorative half-timbering to gables with chimney breasts corbelled out at gable apexes, deep eaves, plain bargeboards, single-storey service wing to rear, and Glasgow-style Art Nouveau interior. White-painted roughcast render with painted sandstone ashlar dressings. 1st floor jettied out; bracketed eaves.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: timber panelled front door to centre; plain architrave; small bracketed canopy above; tripartite windows above and to left. 2-storey bowed projections to outer bays with 5-light mullioned windows to each floor; transoms to ground floor windows.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: broad gable to right: inglenook with red-tiled roof advanced to right; large conservatory; canted bay window at 1st-floor to left. Slighly lower section to left with 2-leaf timber boarded back door. Service wing advanced to outer left with crenellated parapet.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: irregularly fenestrated with advanced gable and service wing to right. Chamfered re-entrant angle with staircase window at 1st floor; lower section glazed in to form lobby; timber boarded back door.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION: irregularly fenestrated gable with late 20th century French doors at ground and canted oriel window at 1st floor.

Small-pane glazing in timber casements and sash and case windows. Corniced, tapered rendered stacks with red terracotta cans. Red tiled roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: tiled lobby; glazed inner door with bevelled glass. Entrance hall panelled to dado; timber picture rail; timber window seat; timber chimneypiece with green-tiled inset with Art Nouveau style scene of horses ploughing. Staircase rising through archway. Dining room: timber picture rail; timber chimneypiece with triple-arched over-mantel; decorative brick insets and brick fender; built-in timber settles flanking fireplace. Mackintosh-style chimneypiece in upstairs bedroom. Fairly plain cornicing and 6-panel timber doors with brass handles throughout.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND STEPS: round-coped, squared red sandstone rubble boundary walls. Garden terrace with sandstone steps.