65 Claredon Street

65 Clarendon Street is a Victorian mid-terraced three-storey house over a partial basement, built around 1874. It is rendered with stucco detailing and forms part of a pair with No. 63, differing from the predominantly two-bay brick houses that characterise most of Clarendon Street.

The north-facing principal elevation is set behind a low plinth wall with evidence of removed railings. The entrance doorway features a round arch opening with moulded embellishment supported by a pair of pilasters painted in contrasting colour. The pilasters are topped with a projecting cornice detail supported on acanthus leaf ornament, with a stucco grape bunch forming an arched stucco architrave at the arch head. Paired half-leaf doors with a plain fanlight above are set two steps above pavement level. The basement, which is windowless, is not evident on the front or rear elevations.

The ground floor contains a two-storey canted bay to the north-west of the facade, with square-headed plain window openings containing 1/1 timber sliding sash windows with horns. Above the main entrance is a single window. The first floor has a single square-headed window with moulded architrave and a projecting hood mould cornice (now missing) supported on decorative console brackets. The second floor comprises three round-headed arched windows with similar stucco embellishment to those below, including a projecting string course at cill level. Stucco quoins to the north-west mirror the detailing of No. 63. A projecting cornice divides the ground and first floors, with similar detail at the top of the canted bay. The building has projecting eaves supported on dentils, distinguishing it from No. 67 to the west.

The pitched natural slate roof has black clay ridge tiles to the main roof and red terracotta ridge tiles to the return. A large redbrick chimney stack rises from the east side, centred on the ridge, with six clay pots. Cast iron guttering and circular downpipes are present to the front.

The south elevation is three-storey with rear return and smooth rendered walls, with a door opening into the rear yard. The fenestration pattern is irregular and all windows have been replaced with uPVC units. An attic window takes the form of a dormer flush with the rear wall. The rear return comprises a short lean-to section of three storeys abutted by a two-storey pitched roof section, both with natural slate roofing. Rear rainwater goods are uPVC.

The property is set within a terrace of ten Victorian townhouses lining the south side of Clarendon Street between Princes Street and Francis Street, located within the Clarendon Street Conservation Area. The front is enclosed by a low rendered wall with painted masonry coping.