Bishop's Parochial Houses, St. Eugene's Cathedral, Francis Street, Londonderry, County Londonderry, BT48 9AP

A three-storey five-bay Gothic-revival style Bishop's house of local Schist with Dungiven Sandstone dressings and gabled side bays. Built in 1876. Located on a triangular site to the west corner within the grounds of St Eugene's Cathedral. Pitched natural slate roof with decorative clay ridge tiles. Gable walls of side bays extend above roof line with stone coping and gabled ridge stone with Celtic cross at apex to south elevation and schist sandstone dressed chimney stack to north elevation; cast-iron rainwater goods with ogee guttering on stone corbel brackets. Walls are of local blue/green schist stone coursed squared. Central bay extends into dormer at top with carved coat of arms. The gable end bays project with the right having a two-storey canted bay window topped with a quatrefoil pierced balcony. Central pointed arch trefoil recessed doorway, flanked by polished red granite columns and surmounted by similar balcony as bay window with coat of arms above. Bays have shouldered surrounds and horizontal 2/2 timber sliding sash windows. Ground floor windows have central sandstone crocketed capital columns. First and second floors do not. Windows to ground and first floors have schist segmental arch above sandstone heads. All windows have shouldered heads, top window on end bays have sandstone carved pointed arch above, with un-carved coat of arms, and Gothic hood mould with head stops. All windows are 2/2 timber sliding sash with chamfered reveals; rear elevation is of irregular fenestration including 1/1 timber sliding sash windows with coloured margin panes to stairwell behind. Six-panel carved timber double doors with stop chamfers to principal entrance at front elevation; brass door fittings with decorative door knocker which has a Celtic motif. Gothic arch hood mould with label stops to door at east elevation. Setting: Set to the West side of the St Eugene's group of buildings (inc. HB 01/21/01 &03 and HB 01/21/22), the principal elevation faces south onto its own gardens within the complex; north elevation facing onto Infirmary Road; east elevation facing the Cathedral tower entrance porch; west elevation facing Creggan Street behind boundary wall of Schist with granite coping and wrought iron railing. Materials: Roof Natural Slate RWG Cast Iron Walling Schist & Dungiven Sandstone Windows Stained glass tracery Doors Original timber