39 Clarendon St., Londonderry

39 Clarendon Street, Londonderry

A mid-terrace two-bay three-storey townhouse with attic, built in 1862 in Georgian style as part of a row of similar properties (Nos. 29-37 and 41-51 Clarendon Street). The building is rectangular on plan with a projecting rear return.

The principal elevation faces north onto Clarendon Street, set behind a low rendered wall topped with black painted replacement metal railings with silver finials set in a sandstone coping. The front is built in Flemish bond brick with a rendered plinth. A three-centred-arch opening contains the entrance doorway with a moulded surround to the right, flanked by Doric-order columns supporting a recessed moulded cornice. The door is painted timber, four-panelled, surmounted by an Adam-style fanlight. Window openings are square-headed with painted cement rendered reveals and painted sills. All windows are 6/6 timber sliding sash except for a single 8/8 timber sliding sash to the left of the door and a 6/3 sash in the front dormer. The first and second floor windows are not aligned with the ground floor openings. A narrow pitched-roof dormer is centred on the elevation. Modern signage at first floor level reads "HASSON & Co. SOLICITORS."

The pitched natural slate roof features black clay ridge tiles, with a single dormer to front and rear. A large brick chimney stack rises from the east side, centred on the ridge, with seven clay pots. Cast-iron guttering and circular downpipes run to front and rear.

The east and west elevations are abutted by adjoining buildings Nos. 37 and 41 Clarendon Street respectively. The south (rear) elevation is three-storey brick with attic. A small pitched-roof three-storey brick return projects to the left, abutted at ground level by a modern profiled metal mono-pitched-roof single-storey rendered extension with casement windows and uPVC rainwater goods. The right bay of the main block has an 8/8 timber sliding sash at ground floor with 6/6 sashes to the first and second floors, aligned over the right reveal of the ground floor window, and a pitched-roof dormer with a casement window above. The left bay, abutted by the rear return, has an exposed 6/3 timber sliding sash window. The rear return's south gable, abutted by the extension at ground level, has an exposed 6/6 timber sliding sash window to first and second floors (the first-floor window has a metal security grill). The east face of the return has a modern vertically sheeted timber door with a blind square-headed overlight at ground floor and diminutive 2/2 timber sliding sash windows to first and second floors, aligned over the right reveal of the door. The west face was not visible at survey.

A two-storey rendered mews building to the rear of the site features a pitched fibre cement slate roof with clipped eaves. Its north face is abutted to the right by the single-storey extension, with a central casement window and door opening to the far left, and a single casement window to the first floor. The east face is abutted by the mews building of No. 37 Clarendon Street with a blank exposed section. The west face is fully abutted by the mews building of No. 41 Clarendon Street. The south face was not viewed at survey.

The property sits within the Clarendon Street Conservation Area, part of a row of twelve mid-Victorian townhouses lining the south side of Clarendon Street. A small enclosed yard to the rear is bounded by the two-storey mews building to the south.

Materials: roof of natural slate with cast-iron rainwater goods; walling in Flemish bond brick; windows in timber.