1 Bayview Terrace, Asylum Road, Londonderry

1 Bayview Terrace is an end-of-terrace, two-bay, three-storey house with an attic level, built in 1870. It is rendered in a mid-Victorian style and forms part of a terrace of seven similar buildings lining the south side of Asylum Road in Londonderry, within the Clarendon Street Conservation Area.

The building is of rectangular plan form facing north, with rendered banded rustication to the ground floor and rendered quoins to the corner at first and second floor levels. A large three-storey rendered return extends to the rear, abutted by a three-storey flat-roofed extension with a low parapet wall. The hipped roof is of natural slate with two small pitched roof dormers (one to the front, one to the west side) and three chimney stacks: two two-stage rendered and brick chimneys with clay pots (one with terracotta pots at the west end, one with buff clay pots at the south end of the main house) and one rendered stack rising from the south end of the rear return. Timber fascia with slightly overhanging timber soffit and half-round cast iron guttering discharges to a circular cast aluminium downpipe on the west elevation.

The front elevation features a two-storey three-sided canted bay to the right of the entrance, rising from ground to first floor level, with entablatures and plain frieze above the lower window, blind fretwork to the upper frieze, and dentilled moulding to the parapet. The canted bay has timber casement windows. The ground floor has rendered banded rustication with a continuous sill course to first floor windows. Remaining window openings are square-headed with moulded architrave surrounds and 1/1 double hung timber sliding sashes with moulded horns. The recessed elliptical arched doorcase, accessed by two steps up, is flanked by rendered square pilasters and entablature. It contains a pair of recessed single-panel timber doors framed by moulded square Doric pilasters and moulded entablature with decorative acanthus leaf detail to the crown moulding. A small pitched roof dormer, centred above the second floor windows, contains a semicircular 1/1 timber sliding sash window. Rendered corner quoins appear at the northwest corner at first and second floor levels. Tiled steps, rendered over, lead to the entrance doorway.

The east side is abutted by No.2 Bayview Terrace. The rear elevation is abutted by the three-storey return with pitched slate roof and black ridge tiles. The south elevation of the rear return is topped by a large rendered painted chimney stack with three octagon-shaped buff clay pots. The rear return gable is abutted by a three-storey flat-roofed extension spanning the full length of the site.

The west side elevation, facing Queen Street, has six square-headed window openings (two per floor level), with the left side bay on the ground floor entirely blocked up. A small pitched slate roof dormer, off-centre, contains a concealed plywood window. The west elevation of the rear return has an oriel window with curved edges at first and second floor levels; the lower window is a uPVC casement with a steel-framed window to the upper floor. Remaining windows are square-headed 1/1 timber sliding sashes: two on the ground floor, one to the left of the oriel window on each of the first and second floors, and two to the attic level with margin panes. An exposed section of the rear return gable has a window opening to the right at second floor level. The west elevation of the rear flat-roofed extension contains a square-headed door opening on the left side with a vertically sheeted timber door, plain architrave surround, and fanlight above. Windows are square-headed 1/1 timber sliding sashes with concrete coping to the solid parapet.

The building is set on a corner site at the south side of Asylum Road and east side of Queen Street, behind a low stone wall with steel railings above. The front entrance is approached by a short flight of stone steps. Materials include natural slate roofing, cast iron rainwater goods, painted render walling, and timber sliding sash and casement windows.