No. 42 And Attached Coach House To The Right

No. 42 and the attached coach house to the right is a detached house dating from around 1820, overlooking the Kennet and Avon canal at the rear. The building features a painted limestone ashlar facade with rough ashlar returns and a double-pitched slate roof, complete with moulded stacks at the right gable ends.

It has a double depth plan and stands two storeys high with a lower ground floor, presenting a two-window front. The ground floor showcases banded rustication, radial voussoirs, and slightly dropped keystones above flat-arched recesses for the ground floor openings. The gable ends are capped with a coped parapet, and there is a cornice, a first-floor sill band, and a platband. The windows are six-over-six pane sash, with a balconette on the first floor to the left. The six-panel door on the left features a minimal blocked overlight, a reeded lintel, glazed top panels, and circular panels in the center.

To the left, there is a single-storey coach house with a hip roof, coped parapet, cornice, frieze, and timber lintel above double planked doors. The interior has not been inspected, but a survey from the Bath Preservation Trust in 1991 reports the extensive survival of interior features. These include a cantilevered stone stair with plain balusters and a mahogany handrail, a drawing room at the rear with a reeded veined marble chimneypiece, reeded architraves around windows and doors, and an anthemion pattern plaster cornice. The sitting room at the front of the ground floor has a similar cornice and architraves, along with cupboards flanking a removed chimneypiece. The upper bedrooms contain reeded wooden chimneypieces with paterae and alcove cupboards.

The design of the elevation is similar to other buildings in Sydney Buildings and is comparable to plans submitted to the Bathwick Estate Office for approval in 1820, signed by John Pinch. The original indenture is dated 1820, with the first mortgage dated 1821.