60 Northland Road, Londonderry, Co. Londonderry, BT48 0AL

60 Northland Road, Londonderry

This is an end-of-terrace three-storey townhouse with attic, built in 1869 to designs by architect John Guy Ferguson. It is rendered in Italianate style with rendered dressings and sits on an elevated site on the west side of Northland Road, with the River Foyle below to the east. It forms part of a terrace of three similar buildings (numbers 56, 58 and 60); numbers 56 and 58 were built at the same time and share the same architectural character.

The building has a rectangular plan form facing north-east. It features a pitched and hipped natural slate roof with tall smooth rendered unpainted two-stage chimney stack to the left side, shared with number 58. Clay roll-top ridge tiles run along the ridge and hips. Half-round cast-iron guttering discharges to a circular painted cast-iron downpipe on the adjoining building, number 58.

The front north-east elevation is three storeys with attic. The ground floor has channelled rusticated render, above which is painted smooth plaster with corner stepped plaster quoins. A decorative cornice features narrow fielded panels and roundels with paired corbel brackets supporting projecting eaves. The doorway contains three-panel timber double doors with roundels at mid-height, set within a shouldered arch with plaster architrave, rope-mould and vermiculated keystone and blocks. To the left of the doorway is a two-storey canted bay window with hipped roof, surmounted by cast-iron cresting. Windows to the ground and first floors are square-headed with 2/2 timber sliding sashes. The first-floor window to the right side is an aedicule with foliate console brackets. Second-floor windows are segmental arched 2/2 timber sliding sashes with slightly shouldered architraves on a continuous sill course. A roof dormer to the left side has a round-arched 1/1 timber sliding sash window with decorative timber fascia and cast-iron finial to the apex. A small modern rooflight is positioned to the right side.

The side south-east elevation abuts the adjoining property, number 58 Northland Road. The rear south-west elevation is smooth unpainted render with a three-storey return built to the left at half-landing level, abutted by a single-storey return. It contains a single square-headed 2/2 timber sliding sash window to the first floor and a 1/1 timber sliding sash to the second floor on the right side. A segmental-headed 1/1 timber sliding sash window sits at second-floor level to the left above the roof of the rear return. The rear return contains replacement timber casement windows to first and second floor landing levels. A smooth rendered buttress wall to the left of the rear return extends to first floor level with a sloping slate-clad top. A small roof dormer on the right side matches the style of the front dormer and contains a replacement timber casement window to the bottom section. The north-west elevation is a blank rendered wall adjacent to the neighbouring property's garden and features strip quoins to the left corner from plinth to cornice, with a continuous sill course at first floor level and stepped quoins to the upper floors.

A two-storey outbuilding to the rear of the site is constructed of local schist walling with redbrick dressed windows. It contains a replacement timber casement window to the left; the right section is covered in ivy. The south-west elevation has square-headed openings with two sets of double timber doors and replacement casement windows above. The building has a pitched natural slate roof with clay roll-top ridge tiles and replacement uPVC rainwater goods.

The front garden is enclosed by a low rendered plinth wall with capping stone and metal railings above. The rear garden is enclosed by schist boundary wall and the schist outbuilding. The building sits at the junction of Northland Road and Eden Terrace, with front elevation facing north-east.