City Factory, Queen St., Patrick St., Londonderry

Detached multi-bay three-storey over basement polychromatic brick former factory, built c.1862, extended to the east, dated 1900, to the designs of Robert Young, and Young & Mackenzie respectively. U-shaped on plan, facing south onto Patrick Street with a series of projections and accretions to the rear. Hipped natural slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, several skylights and moulded cast-iron guttering on corbelled yellow brick eaves course with cast-iron, steel and plastic downpipes. Crow-stepped gable to the east rear projection and a central tower rising to form a third floor to the centre of the front elevation with a pyramidal slate roof. Red brick walling laid in Flemish bond with moulded sandstone ashlar quoins and plinth course. Rough-hewn limestone walling to basement level. Decorative angled and chevron patterned yellow brick courses below continuous sill courses. Camber-headed window openings formed in stop-chamfered yellow brick surrounds with sandstone sills and largely replacement hardwood timber casement windows. Principal south elevation is 28 windows wide with a pair of shallow recessed bays dividing the elevation into thirds. The recessed bays have three slender arched windows to the upper levels (that to the east rises to form an attic storey) with large openings at ground floor level. Square-headed opening to the west recess having a concrete lintel and replacement steel glazed doors. That to the east has an elliptical arched opening formed in chamfered yellow brick with a sandstone keystone with raised digits ‘1900’, and replacement hardwood glazed entrance screen. West side elevation is seven windows wide and fronts onto Queen Street. Detailed as per above except to the ground floor. Round-headed window and door openings to the ground floor formed in stepped and moulded yellow brick with carved sandstone figurative ancons and sandstone sills supported on brackets. Irregular rear elevation with less ornate detailing and comprising a full-height projection to either end, a further full-height projection to the centre and a series of lower accretions and utilitarian structures to the remainder. East side elevation is nine windows wide with an angle to the elevation accommodating the line of North Edward Street. Detailing as per front elevation. Roof Natural slate RWG Cast-iron/uPVC Walling Polychromatic brick Windows Replacement hardwood casement Setting: Occuping the entire length of Patrick Street and returning onto Queen Street, the former factory dominates its locale. A less formally designed east side elevation fronts onto North Edward Street with utilitarian accretions and extensions to the rear facing onto an access lane.