2 Bayview Terrace, Asylum Road, Londonderry

Mid-terraced three-bay three-storey with attic rendered mid-Victorian house, built in 1870 (Architect unknown). Rectangular plan form facing north with rendered banded rustication to ground floor of front elevation with a three-storey rendered return to the rear. Part of a terrace of seven buildings of similar type and style lining the south side of Asylum Road (HB01/22/017A-G). Pitched slate roof has two small dormers, one to the front one to the rear with a two-stage rendered chimney stack with terracotta clay pots. The dormer to the front is flanked by two small rooflights. Timber fascia and slightly overhanging timber soffit; moulded uPVC guttering discharging to circular uPVC downpipe on the north elevation. The front elevation (North) has rendered banded rustication on the ground floor with a rendered plinth and a continuous painted sill course to first floor windows spanning the width of the elevation; window openings are square headed with moulded architrave surrounds and uPVC casement windows. Two windows are aligned with upper floor bays to the right of a recessed elliptical arched door opening on ground floor, five steps up, flanked by rendered square pilasters and entablature above painted in contrasting colour, plain fanlight to a pair of timber single panel doors framed by moulded square pilasters of the Doric order and moulded entablature above. Small pitched roof dormer on main slate roof, centred on front elevation has slated cheeks and a semicircular uPVC casement window, set within u-PVC horizontal boarding to front. There are three window openings to each of the first and second floors, centred above the front door and ground floor windows. Rear elevation (South) is smooth-rendered unpainted finish with square headed window openings having uPVC casement windows throughout; rear elevation is abutted to the west side by a metal external staircase, accessed from rear yard. The east side of the rear elevation is abutted by a three storey return; (full access to rear yard not possible at time of survey); south elevation of rear return is blank and is of rough-cast render. West side is abutted by No.1 Bayview Terrace (HB01/22/017A). East side is abutted by No.3 Bayview Terrace (HB01/22/017C). Setting: Located on the south side of Asylum Road behind a stone wall with steel railings above, the front main entrance is approached by a short flight of stone steps, set within a terrace row of seven houses of similar type (HB01/22/017A-G) and style facing north situated within Clarendon Street Conservation Area. Materials: Roof Natural Slate RWGs uPVC Walling Render Windows uPVC casements