23 Fountain Street, Londonderry, Co. Londonderry, BT48 6QX

Victorian mid-terrace two-bay two-storey with attic polychromatic brick townhouse with natural slate pitched roof, built c.1883. Rectangular on plan with projecting single storey rear return with flat roof. Principal elevation faces South-east onto Fountain Street overlooking former industrial buildings to the opposite side of the street and set at the back of the pavement. Built as part of a terrace row of fourteen similar houses of this type lining the North-west side of Fountain Street. South-east elevation is set in English Garden Wall brick bond with Victorian industrial brickwork dressings in contrasting colour; ornamental projecting brick cornice at eaves level with double band of black brick dressings below; single segmental arch-headed window opening on the ground floor and two on the first floor; segmental arch-headed entrance door opening, level with pavement with four panel painted timber front door with plain segmental headed fanlight above. All openings have red brick voussoirs to heads with three black bricks to the centre forming a ‘key-stone’ detail. Continuous decorative brick stringcourse in contrasting black brick occur on ground and first floors at sill and head level with a further row of black brick separated by three courses of red above sill and below head level. Ground and first floor windows are 1 over 1 timber sliding sash windows. All first floor sills have painted finish, Ground Floor is concrete replacement. North-east and South-west sides are abutted by adjoining buildings No.21(HB01/19/094F) Fountain Street and No.25 (HB01/19/094H) Fountain Street. North-west elevation to the rear is of painted rendered finish with unpainted render to single storey flat roofed extension to right. Single 1/1 timber sliding sash windows to both ground and first floors to rear elevation with u-PVC windows to return. South-east boundary is formed by the historic city walls. Pitched natural slate roof with a roof lights to both the front (SE) and rear (NW). Black ridge tiles to the main roof. Double redbrick chimney stack rising from the north-east side, centred on ridge with 6 clay pots. Double bands of black brick below a double projecting brick course to the chimney. U-PVC rain water goods to front (SE) and rear (NW), half round gutters on drive through brackets. Setting: Built as part of a terrace row of fourteen similar houses of this type lining the north-west side of Fountain Street which is located just outside and backing onto the historic city walls between New Gate and Ferry Quay Gate and to the east of St Columb's Cathedral (HB01/19/001). Materials: Roof Natural Slate RWG U-PVC Walling Brick (SE) / Render (NW) Windows Timber sliding sash to front and rear, u-PVC to rear return.