6 Clarence Avenue, Londonderry

Late-Victorian mid-terrace two-bay three-storey brick, Arts and Crafts style townhouse, built 1900 to designs by R. E. Buchanan. Rectangular on plan with projecting rear return built at half-landing level. Principal elevation faces South onto Clarence Avenue, set behind low red-brick wall. Part of a terraced row of eleven similar houses of this type, lining the north side of Clarence Avenue. Principle (S) elevation is of Flemish brick bond; two bays wide with a two-storey canted bay to right surmounted by a rectangular gabled bay to the second floor that is cantilevered on large timber brackets with carved timber corbels to either side. Vertical half-timber panelling to gable with plain wide painted timber fascia board. Terracotta finial to apex. All openings are square-headed, including the entrance doorway, five steps up, with moulded cornice supported on console brackets on moulded pilasters to either side of the four-panel fielded timber door with plain fanlight above. All windows to S are timber sliding sash, 2/1 panes with paired stained glass upper lights to canted bay and a single window above door opening at first floor level. 8/2 panes to second floor level. Painted rendered band to ground and first floor window heads, sill course to first and second floor windows painted in contrasting colour. East and West sides are abutted by adjoining buildings No. 4 & 8 Clarence Avenue (HB01/22/006B & HB01/22/006D). North elevation is of three-storeys with two-storey gabled rear return built at half-landing level, painted render finish with uPVC casement windows and door opening onto rear yard. Later painted rendered two-storey extension to rear return with monopitched slate roof, blank N end and uPVC casement windows to E and W faces. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta clay ridge tiles to the main roof and rear return; modern skylight inserted to north facing slope of main roof, near eaves level. Large red-brick chimney stack with dog-toothed corbel rising from the East side, centred on ridge with clay pots. Smaller red-brick chimney centred on gable end to original rear return. Cast-iron guttering and circular downpipes to the front elevation. Materials: Roof Natural Slate RWG Cast Iron (S) Walling Brick (S) / Render (N) Windows Timber Sliding Sash (S) uPVC casement (N) Setting: Built as one of a terrace of eleven similar houses lining the north side of Clarence Avenue on a steep gradient, within the Magee Conservation Area, set back from the pavement with a small front garden. Rear yard bound by a mixture of rubble schist stone and concrete block walling, with timber sheeted gate within segmental arched opening, backing on to shared alley with the University campus beyond.