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

Late-Victorian mid-terrace three-bay two-storey with attic level smooth-rendered painted townhouse, built c. 1892 to designs by the architect W.A. Barker. The remainder of the terrace built in stages over a period of two decades and completed in 1911. rectangular on plan with projecting rear return. Principal elevation faces East onto Strand Road, set behind modern painted railings enclosing a concrete paved forecourt. Built as part of a terrace row of seventeen similar houses of this type lining the west side of Strand Road. Slated pitched roof with a small modern velux roof light to the east side and a two-stage yellow brick chimney stack rising from the north side, shared with No.3. Principal elevation (E) is of smooth-rendered painted finish (differing from majority of terrace which is of polychromatic brick), slightly projecting rendered tapered cornice at eaves; canted single storey bay to ground floor level with hipped roof, continuous painted sill course to first floor windows spanning the width of the elevation; segmental arch-headed window openings to canted bay and first floor windows, round-headed opening to wall-headed gable dormer window with painted apex fascia board. 2/2 timber sliding sashes to canted bay and first floor windows and a small 2/2 timber sliding sash to dormer window. Segmental arch-headed opening to entrance doorway, three steps up from the pavement with plain architrave surround and moulded cornice over a painted four-panel fielded timber door with plain fanlight above. North and South sides are abutted by adjoining buildings No.3 & 7 Aberfoyle Terrace (HB01/22/014A & HB01/22/014C). West elevation to the rear is three-storeys of cement rendered unpainted finished with a two-storey cement rendered unpainted rear return built at half-landing height, rear return is abutted by extension spanning between the rear of No's 3 & 5 Aberfoyle, connecting both buildings. No access to rear yard. Pitched slate roof has terracotta clay ridge tiles to main roof, dormer and rear return. Large yellow brick chimney stack rising from the north side and shared with No.3, centred on ridge with circular clay pots. Cast-iron guttering and circular downpipe to front. Setting: Aberfoyle Terrace is located on the western side of Strand Road, situated to the immediate north of Derry city centre. Magee College (University of Ulster) is located at high level to the immediate rear (west) of the terrace. No.5 is the second house in the terrace, at the north end. It is within the Magee Conservation Area. The River Foyle is located to the east. Materials: Roof : Natural Slate RWG: Cast Iron Walling : Smooth-render Windows : Timber Sliding Sash