15 Fountain Street, Londonderry, Co. Londonderry, BT48 6QX

15 Fountain Street, Londonderry

This is a Victorian mid-terrace townhouse built around 1883, forming part of a row of fourteen similar houses on the north-west side of Fountain Street. It is a two-storey structure with an attic, rectangular on plan, with a projecting single-storey rear return with flat felted roof.

The principal south-east elevation faces Fountain Street and is built in English Garden Wall brick bond with Victorian industrial brickwork dressing in contrasting colour. It features an ornamental projecting brick cornice at eaves level with a double band of black brick dressings below. The elevation has one segmental arch-headed window opening on the ground floor and two on the first floor, all with red brick voussoirs to the heads and three black bricks to the centre forming a 'key-stone' detail. The entrance is a segmental arch-headed door opening, one step up from the pavement, with a non-original painted four-panel timber door and a plain segmental headed fanlight above. Continuous decorative brick stringcourses in contrasting black colour occur at ground and first floor sill and head levels, with a further row of black brick separated by three courses of red above sill and below head level. Ground and first floor windows are u-PVC casements with painted sills.

The north-east and south-west sides are abutted by adjoining buildings. The north-west elevation to the rear is of painted rendered finish, with irregular fenestration consisting of u-PVC casements. Windows on the south-west side of the rear elevation are set at half-landing height. The rear return contains u-PVC windows to the kitchen and bathroom on the north-east side. The yard has been enclosed with a clear polycarbonate corrugated mono-pitch roof.

The main roof is pitched fibre cement with a roof light on the north-east side and black ridge tiles. A large red brick chimney stack rises from the north-east side, centred on the ridge, with six clay pots with lead caps, featuring a contrasting black brick course below a projecting red brick course and a further black band three courses below. Cast aluminium guttering and circular downpipes serve the front elevation, with u-PVC to the rear.

The building is located just outside and backing onto the historic city walls between New Gate and Ferry Quay Gate, to the east of St Columb's Cathedral.