4 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 with concrete capping stone and metal railings. 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. Diagonal half-timber panelling to gable with plain wide painted timber fascia board above window head to pair of 1/1 sliding sashes. Terracotta finial to apex. All openings are square-headed, including the entrance doorway, with moulded cornice supported on console brackets on moulded pilasters to either side of the four-panel fielded timber door with stained glass fanlight above. All windows to front elevation are 1/1 timber sliding sash windows. 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. 2 & 6 Clarence Avenue (HB01/22/006A & HB01/22/006C). North elevation is of three-storeys with four-storey rear return built at half-landing level, painted render finish with double door opening onto rear yard. The return to this house is higher than those to the remainder of the terrace, with asymmetrical openings and a chimney to the west face. The fenestration pattern is irregular with both 1/1 sliding sashes and casement windows. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta clay ridge tiles to the main roof and rear return. Large red-brick chimney stack with dog-toothed corbel rising from the East side, centred on ridge with clay pots. Cast-iron guttering and circular downpipes to the front elevation. Materials: Roof Natural Slate RWG Cast Iron Walling Brick (S) Render (N) Windows Timber Sliding Sash 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 rubble schist stone walling, with metal sheeted gate within squared-headed opening, and vertical boarded timber fencing above, on galvanised steel uprights. The yard backs on to a shared alley with the University campus beyond.