51 Clarendon St., Londonderry

Victorian end-of-terrace two-bay three-storey redbrick Georgian-style townhouse, built c.1862. Rectangular on plan with large projecting modern rear return. Principal elevation faces North onto Clarendon Street set behind a low cement rendered wall with concrete coping and painted wrought-iron railings above. Built as part of a terrace row of similar houses of this type lining the north and south side of Clarendon Street. Slated pitched roof with single dormer to the front and rear. Principal elevation is set in Flemish brick bond on painted rendered plinth base; square-headed window openings set within painted concrete reveals and painted sills; all windows are 6/6 timber sliding sash with two windows to the ground, first and second floor levels; elliptical arched opening to entrance doorway with moulded cornice supported by scrolled corbel brackets on moulded pilasters either side of a painted double-panelled timber door and plain fanlight above; a coupled 1/1 timber sliding sash to dormer window. Timber gate to the right hand side of the front elevation (west) closes off the access to the side and rear of the property. East side is abutted by adjoining building No.49 Clarendon Street (HB01/21/00W). West elevation is blank, cement rendered with projecting chimney stack. South elevation is three-storeys of cement rendered unpainted finished with a two-storey unpainted cement rendered rear return built at half-landing height, abutted by a large two-storey modern extension spanning the width of both properties to the rear of No.49 & 51 with four modern velux roof lights to each side of a slated pitched roof. The fenestration pattern is irregular, with a single 6/6 sliding sash window to ground, first and second floors, and 6/3 sliding sash to attic level and a coupled 1/1 sliding sash to dormer window. Pitched slated roof has black clay ridge tiles to main roof, rear return and both dormers. Large redbrick chimney stack rising from the East side and a large cement rendered chimney stack rising from the West gable, centred on ridge with seven circular clay pots to each. Cast-iron guttering and circular downpipe to front. Setting: Built as part of a row of twelve mid-Victorian townhouses which line the south side of Clarendon Street. Located within the Clarendon Street Conservation Area, the front of the property faces north and is set behind a low cement rendered wall with concrete coping and painted wrought-iron railings above. Materials: Roof Natural Slate RWG Cast Iron Walling Flemish Brick Bond Windows Timber Sliding Sash