Numbers 42 And 44 And Attached Railings Walls And Piers

A pair of semi-detached villas, numbers 42 and 44, were built between 1839 and 1841 by Abraham Tyler, a local builder known for his work in the Pittville area. The houses are constructed with stucco over brick, with a hipped slate roof and renewed brick party-wall stacks. They have iron verandahs, window boxes and railings.

The exterior detailing includes a first-floor band surmounted by three Doric pilasters between the central windows. The windows are mostly 6/6 sash windows, taller on the ground floor, set in plain reveals with sills. The basement also has 6/6 sash windows. Each house has a front entrance accessed by a flight of steps (with a roll-edged edge to the left side) leading to a 5-panel door. The door on the right is part-glazed with sidelights, divided overlights, and margin-lights. There are wide eaves, and the roofs have a central coped divide and kneelers. The interior was not inspected.

Subsidiary features include tent-roofed verandahs with an x-and-circle motif to the uprights; openwork friezes remain on the right side, and X-motif area railings are present throughout. Window boxes on the ground floor have an X-motif, and arrowhead railings are between the houses. Walls, approximately 2 metres high, run along the sides, ramping down to piers, with the left-hand pier shared with number 40. These houses were built as part of a development undertaken for Joseph Pitt between 1835 and 1842, with the overall layout designed by the architect John Forbes. Numbers 34 to 60 (even) on Prestbury Road form a group of semi-detached villas.