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

Victorian mid-terrace two-bay two-storey with attic polychromatic brick townhouse, with fibre cement roof. Built 1883. Rectangular on plan with projecting single storey rear return with flat felted and pebble finish roof. Principal elevation faces South-east onto Fountain Street overlooking former industrial buildings to the opposite side of the street set at the back of the pavement. Built as part of a terrace row of fourteen similar houses of this type lining the North-west side of Fountain Street. South-east elevation is set in English Garden Wall brick bond (with cement repointing).Victorian industrial brickwork dressing in contrasting colour; ornamental projecting brick cornice at eaves level with double band of black brick dressings below; single segmental arch-headed window opening on the ground floor and two on the first floor; segmental arch-headed entrance door opening, one step up from pavement with four panel u-PVC front door with plain segmental headed fanlight above. All openings have red brick voussoirs to heads with three black bricks to the centre forming a ‘key-stone’ detail. Continuous decorative brick stringcourse in contrasting black colour occur on ground and first floors at sills and heads 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. All sills are replacement concrete and have painted finish. North-east and South-west sides are abutted by adjoining buildings No.15 (HB01/19/094C) Fountain Street and No.19 (HB01/19/094E) Fountain Street. North-west elevation to the rear is of painted rendered finish with single storey felted flat and pebble finish roofed rear return running close to the South-east side of the historic city walls. The fenestration pattern is irregular with u-PVC casements to the rear elevation with windows to the South-west side of the rear elevation being set at half landing height. Pitched fibre cement roof with a roof light at the rear to the North-east side (LHS). Black ridge tiles to the main roof. Large redbrick chimney stack rising from the north-east side, centred on ridge with 5 clay pots (some capped), contrasting black brick course two courses below a concrete capping which replaces projecting course. Cast iron ogee guttering to the front (SE) and cast aluminium to the rear (NW). Setting: Built as part of a terrace row of fourteen similar houses of this type lining the north-west side of Fountain Street which is located just outside and backing onto the historic city walls between New Gate and Ferry Quay Gate and to the east of St Columb's Cathedral (HB01/19/001). Materials: Roof Fibre cement / pebble finish to return RWG Cast iron to front (SE) / cast aluminium to rear (NW) Walling Brick (SE) / Painted render (NW) Windows u-PVC casements