Custom House, Custom House St., Londonderry

Three-storey five-bay Custom House of Classical-style. L-shaped plan form, constructed with adjoining Post Office building [HB01/21/017A] to west end in 1876. Principal elevation with a combination of round-arched and segmental-arched windows in asymmetric layout faces east set back from riverfront. North elevation faces onto shared courtyard leading to Queens Quay, with mix of schist and buff sandstone with redbrick dressings. East elevation faces onto Harbour Square and riverfront, with round-headed casement (bottom-hinged) windows to first floor, and segmental-headed 1/1 painted timber sliding sash windows to second floor. Ground floor windows are shoulder-headed with chamfered reveals, 1/1 painted timber sliding sash. Original 3 panelled square-headed painted timber doorway to left of centre with fanlight and round arch above having angle-roll hood mould and foliated label stops. Segmental arched passageway to right of centre with modern painted, sheeted and braced sliding doors. South elevation is stepped merging with Post Office building; west elevation to rear is attached to Post Office building at south end with external courtyard to north end. Elevations of snecked squared rubble quarry-faced, with a mix of Barony Glen and Giffnock sandstone with projecting stone cornice at eaves on stone corbels and ashlar stepped quoins. Hipped slate roof with lead rolled ridge. Stone chimneys mid-ridge to east end of east elevation and gable-end to north elevation with four clay pots. Cast-iron rainwater goods Materials: Roof Natural Slate RWG Cast Iron Walling Sandstone Windows Timber Sliding Sash Setting: Located on a corner site to Custom House Street and Queens Quay, west of the River Foyle, north of the city walls. Set within a group of three blocks with street frontage overlooking Harbour Square and river.