3 Aberfoyle Terrace, Strand Road, Londonderry, County Londonderry, BT48 6SE

A late-Victorian end-of-terrace townhouse built circa 1891 to designs by architect W.A. Barker. This two-bay, three-storey property stands at the north end of Aberfoyle Terrace, a row of seventeen similar houses developed over two decades and completed in 1911, lining the west side of Strand Road immediately north of Derry city centre.

No. 3 is notably different from the majority of the terrace. While most houses are two-storeys with dormer attic level and constructed in Flemish brick bond with polychromatic dressings, No. 3 (along with No. 35) steps up to full three-storey height and features a distinctive smooth-rendered painted finish rather than exposed brickwork. The building is rectangular on plan with a large projecting rear return.

The principal elevation faces east onto Strand Road, set behind modern painted steel railings enclosing a concrete paved forecourt. The smooth-rendered painted facade is crowned by a deep projecting cornice at eaves, supported on corbel brackets. A canted bay rises through two storeys from ground floor level, with sill courses to ground and first floor windows and a slightly projecting moulded cornice. The canted bay and second floor feature segmental arch-headed window openings; the first floor contains a square-headed opening with moulded surround. All windows are 2/2 timber sliding sashes. The first floor left window has moulded surround, sill course and shoulder course to second floor windows.

The entrance comprises a semicircular arch-headed opening reached by two steps, with moulded surround, flying keystone and plain pilasters flanking a pair of painted three-panel fielded timber doors constructed as one unit, with a plain fanlight above.

The north elevation is cement-rendered unpainted, with a single 1/1 timber sliding sash window on the first floor left side and a ground floor window opening to the right (not visible from street level at time of survey). The south side is abutted by adjoining No. 5 Aberfoyle Terrace.

The west elevation to the rear is three storeys of cement-rendered unpainted finish. A single-storey unpainted cement-rendered extension with slated half-hipped roof spans the width of the site, connecting with the rear extension of No. 5 next door. Fenestration is irregular, with 1/1 timber sliding sashes and casements to the rear extension.

The pitched slate roof carries terracotta clay ridge tiles to the main roof and black clay ridge tiles to the rear extension. Large yellow brick chimney stacks rise from the north and south sides, centred on the ridge, each topped with a terracotta circular clay pot. Cast-iron guttering and circular downpipe serve the front elevation. A two-stage yellow brick chimney stack also rises from each gable elevation.

The property stands within the Magee Conservation Area, with Magee College (University of Ulster) located at high level immediately to the rear (west), and the River Foyle to the east.