Nos. 47-73 (Odd), Prestbury Road, Selkirk House (Number 73) And Attached Railings To Numbers 47 To 57, 65 And 67

Nos. 47-73 (odd), Prestbury Road, including Selkirk House (No. 73) and attached railings to Nos. 47-57, 65 and 67, form a terrace of 14 houses built around the 1840s and 1850s, with later additions and alterations including 20th-century attic additions to Nos. 73, 55, and 53. The terrace is likely the work of Abraham Tyler, a local builder, and stands on a site that was laid out on Merrett’s 1834 map. The houses are constructed of stucco over brick, with slate roofs where the original covering remains, and brick party wall stacks. They are arranged on a double-depth plan, mostly with side hallways, except for the central house on the left and the service ranges to the rear of each property.

The exterior features two storeys over a basement, and includes twenty-nine first-floor windows (three to the left-hand house, then two per house). Stucco detailing includes pilasters with sunk panels and anthemion motifs to capitals on party walls, with Doric pilasters to the ends and between windows on the left side. There is a crowning entablature, raised to the left-hand side, and the ground-floor windows have tooled architraves. Windows and doors are adorned with cornices resting on corbel brackets, while the first-floor has moulded sill bands, except for the left-hand house. The original windows are mostly 6/6 sashes; ground-floor windows are tripartite, consisting of a 6/6 pane between two 2/2 panes, while other first-floor windows are tripartite 1/1 sashes, some with lugs. The basement windows are 8/8 sashes, all with plain reveals and sills. The central house (No. 73) has a distyle Doric porch with triglyphs and metopes to the frieze, followed by one entrance to the left, then entrances to the right. Flights of steps (roll-edged where original) lead to 3- and 4-panel doors, many of which are part-glazed and have overlights with margin lights. The left return has three windows, mostly blank, with 6/6 sashes.

The interior retains original joinery, including panelled shutters to some windows. There are window boxes with scroll motifs to Nos. 53, 57 and 69, with a particularly ornate box to No. 71. Railings are mostly stick balustrades and arrowhead railings, with some scrolled balustrades to the sides of the steps. Area railings to Nos. 51, 65 and 67 have an X-motif. Arrowhead dividing railings with anthemion finials are present to the left of Nos. 47-57. No. 51 has forecourt arrowhead railings with urn finials. Abraham Tyler is known to have built many of the houses on the north-west side of Prestbury Road around 1840, and No. 73 is believed to be one of his constructions.