12 Clarence Avenue, Londonderry

Late-Victorian mid-terrace two-bay three-storey brick, Arts and Crafts style townhouse, built 1900 to designs by R. E. Buchanan. Rectangular on plan with projecting rear return built at half-landing level. Principal elevation faces South onto Clarence Avenue, set behind low redbrick wall with painted railings above. Part of a terraced row of eleven similar houses of this type, lining the north side of Clarence Avenue. Principle (S) elevation is of Flemish brick bond; two bays wide with a two-storey canted bay to right surmounted by a rectangular gabled bay to the second floor that is cantilevered on large timber brackets with carved timber corbels to either side. Diagonal half-timber panelling to gable with plain wide painted timber fascia board. Terracotta finial to apex. All openings are square-headed, including the entrance doorway, with moulded cornice supported on console brackets on moulded pilasters to either side of a four-panel fielded timber door with stained glass fanlight above. All windows to front are timber sliding sashes, 1/1 panes with stained glass upper lights to canted bay on ground and first floor and the same type of window above door opening at first floor level. 8/2 and 4/2 panes to second floor level. Painted rendered band to ground and first floor window heads, painted sill course to first and second floor windows. East and West sides are abutted by adjoining buildings No. 10 & 14 Clarence Avenue (HB01/22/006E & HB01/22/006G). North elevation is asymmetrical three-storeys with render finish (unpainted) with two-storey rear return built at half-landing level with a small red-brick chimney rising from the gable-end of rear return. Single-storey abutment to rear return with duo-pitched slated roof. 2/2 timber sliding sash windows to second floor rear elevation and rear return, 1/1 timber sliding sash windows to ground and first floors and a single casement window to the ground floor level of rear return. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta clay ridge tiles to the main roof and rear return. Large red-brick chimney stack with dog-toothed corbel rising from the East side, centred on ridge with clay pots. Cast-iron guttering and circular downpipes to the front elevation. Materials: Roof Natural Slate RWG Cast Iron (S) Walling Red Brick(S) unfinished render (N) Windows Timber Sliding Sash except for one casement to GF within rear return Setting: Built as one of a terrace of eleven similar houses lining the north side of Clarence Avenue on a steep gradient, within the Magee Conservation Area, set back from the pavement with a small front garden. Rear boundary wall comprised of rubble schist stone to the lower portion, possibly following the roof slope of an earlier outhouse, topped by concrete blockwork. A sheeted timber gate within a square-headed opening provides access from the yard to a shared alley, which backs on to the University campus to the N.