40 And 42, Guildford Road

Nos 40 and 42 Guildford Road are a pair of houses built between 1843 and 1850 as part of a planned estate by John Snell. They are designed in the Italianate style and constructed from stock brick with a hipped slate roof and a central brick chimney stack. The buildings are two storeys high with a basement and feature four windows. They have a cornice and four giant pilasters.

No 42 retains its original marginal glazing, with the first-floor windows having moulded architraves and brackets below the sills. The ground floor windows have cornices and brackets, along with cast iron flower guards featuring an anthemion motif and brackets below the sills. In contrast, No 40 has 20th-century casements in its original openings. Both houses have Ionic porticoes on the sides with stone steps leading to the street, which are flanked by iron balustrades. The basement is rusticated with a cambered-headed window, and No 40 includes a 20th-century flat-roofed dormer. These houses are identical in type to Nos 44 and 46.