2 Eglinton Terrace, Ayr

9 Eglinton Terrace in Ayr is a two-storey terrace built in the later 19th century, featuring mirrored pairs of three-bay houses. The exterior is made of polished ashlar stone, with a base course, a central band course, a first-floor cill course, and a mutuled cornice. The window surrounds have architraves, and there are cornices above the first-floor windows.

On the entrance elevation, there is a regular arrangement of square-headed, architraved entrances at the ground level, located to the left or right, with timber doors and letterbox fanlights. Above these entrances, there are single windows aligned on the first floor, and the outer bays have consistent fenestration. Some houses, including Nos 1, 2, 13, 14, 15, and 27, are raised in height by the depth of the frieze cornice and feature wrought-iron balconies on the first floor, except for No 27. The dormers vary, with a tripartite dormer on No 7, a bipartite dormer on No 13, a tripartite dormer on No 14, a single dormer on No 15, two swept dormers on No 17 (with a bipartite dormer to the right), a double dormer on No 23, and single round-arched dormers on Nos 24 and 25.

The windows are four-pane timber sash and case, and the roofs are covered with grey slate, with piend roofs on Nos 1, 2, and 13-15. Dormers are present on Nos 1 (side and rear only), 2 (rear only), 7, 12 (rear only), 13 (entrance elevation only), 14 (entrance elevation only), 15 (entrance elevation only), 17, 23, 24, and 25, along with rooflights and a mutuled cornice on the ridge stacks, which have polygonal and circular cans.

The interiors were not seen in 1998. The boundary walls, gatepiers, railings, and gates include low coped walls that separate the houses and enclose the site on the east elevation, some topped with railings. There are short balustrades at the entrance with square-plan piers and ball-finials, and iron gatepiers and gates for pedestrian entrances, most of which remain intact.