57 Clarendon St., Londonderry

Victorian mid-terrace three-bay three-storey with attic, painted render and brick townhouse. Built c.1872. Rectangular on plan with principal elevation facing north; entrance is two steps up from pavement, set behind low level painted rendered boundary wall and concrete capping stone. Built as part of a row of four terraced houses, as two sets of two, located within a row of ten similarly scaled townhouses, lining the south side of Clarendon Street. Principal (N) elevation is painted render to ground floor and Flemish brick bond above to upper floors; round-arch opening to doorway and windows at ground floor level (the latter also have bull-nosed cills and a moulded apron panel below) with moulded shoulder-course between each window. Hood mould and flying keystone to each window; painted timber four-panelled door with plain fanlight above. All windows are timber sliding sash with 1/1 panes. Square-headed windows to first floor and segmental arched windows to second floor level. Painted masonry sill-course to first floor windows. Flat topped dormer with casement window to front and fixed glazing to both cheeks. East and West sides are abutted by adjoining buildings No.55 and No.59 Clarendon Street (HB01/21/005XX & HB01/21/005Z). The South elevation is three-storeys, rendered (unpainted), with three-storey projecting gabled bay to the left side, abutted by a two storey rear return at half-landing level. Square-headed 1/1 timber sliding sash windows to rear elevation and projecting bay, top hung casement windows and door opening (all fitted with metal bars) to rear return; uPVC rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof, black clay ridge tiles and large retangular red-brick chimney stack, rising one bay in from the East side, centred on ridge with eight clay pots. Flat roofed dormer and skylight to front (north) roof slope and pitched roof dormer to rear (south). Painted brick to eaves, cast-iron guttering supported on corbel brackets and cast-iron downpipe to front. Materials: Roof : Natural Slate RWG : Cast Iron (N) / uPVC (S) Walling: Red Brick and Render, painted (N) / Render, unpainted (S) Windows: Timber Sliding Sash, with timber casements to 2-storey return Setting: Built as part of a row of four mid-Victorian townhouses which line the south side of Clarendon Street, No. 55-61 (HB01.22.005 XX, Z and AA). Located within the Clarendon Street Conservation Area just above the junction of Clarendon Street/Princes Street, the front of the property faces north and is set behind a low rendered wall enclosing a small hard surfaced area.