1A Academy Road, Londonderry, County Londonderry, BT48 7HP

Victorian end-of-terrace six-bay two-storey rendered villa type house. Built between1866-1869 and thought possibly to have been designed by John Guy Ferguson. Rectangular on plan with a cruciform pitched slate roof and large chimney stack centred on ridge. Built on the corner of Northland Road and Academy Road with front elevation facing south onto Academy Road and two-storey rear return interlocking with Nos. 1&2 Crawford Square (HB01/22/037A&B). Small garden, triangular on plan, to east with smooth rendered boundary wall (painted) with concrete capping and modern galvanised metal pedestrian gate accessed from Northland Road. Principal elevation (south) is smooth ruled and lined painted render; window openings are square-headed on painted masonry sills, with windows all concealed behind plywood sheeting. Fibre cement slate to pitched roof with terracotta ridge tiles and central gable with recessed roundel centred on apex. Central four-bay single-storey flat roofed entrance porch with projecting cornice. Entrance door to east side with painted plaster moulded architrave. Replacement uPVC ogee guttering, square-section downpipes, fascia and soffit. Smooth rendered unpainted chimney stack with 5 tall clay pots, centred on ridge, with middle pot capped. Rear elevation (north) is smooth render painted walls having no fenestration with two-storey return to west with single storey lean-to return to east. Return interlocks in section with Crawford Square rear returns; sheet membrane pitched roof in cruciform arrangement with main roof pitch. East elevation is smooth painted block-lined render with single-storey lean-to extension accessed six steps up from garden level having fibre cement slates behind rendered boundary wall. West elevation is abutted to outbuilding of No. 3 Crawford Square. Pitched fibre cement slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and rendered brick chimney stack with five clay pots. Replacement uPVC ogee guttering, square-section downpipes, fascia and soffit. Materials: Roof Fibre cement RWG uPVC Walling Render Windows Sheeted with plywood Setting: Set at the junction of Northland Road and Academy Road to the south of Crawford Square with a small garden to the east, within the Clarendon Street Conservation Area.