35 Clarendon St., Londonderry

35 Clarendon Street, Londonderry

A mid-terrace two-bay three-storey townhouse with attic, built in 1862 in red brick in the Georgian style. It forms part of a row of similar properties (Nos. 29-33 and 37-51 Clarendon Street) that line the south side of Clarendon Street within the Clarendon Street Conservation Area.

The building is rectangular on plan with a projecting rear return. The principal elevation faces north onto Clarendon Street, set behind a low rendered wall topped with black painted replacement metal railings. The north-facing front elevation is constructed in Flemish bond red brick with a rendered plinth. A three-centred-arch opening contains the entrance doorway with a moulded surround to the right. The doorway features a recessed moulded cornice supported by Doric columns either side, and is fitted with a painted four-panelled timber door surmounted by an Adam-style fanlight.

Window openings throughout are square-headed with painted cement rendered reveals and painted sills. The ground floor displays a single 8/8 timber sliding sash window to the left of the door, with two 6/6 windows on the first and second floors (the upper windows not aligned with the ground floor openings). A narrow pitched roof dormer is centred on the elevation, containing a 6/3 timber sliding sash window.

The roof is pitched with natural slate, black clay ridge tiles, and a pitched roof dormer to the front. A large brick chimney stack rises from the east side, centred on the ridge, with seven clay pots. Cast-iron guttering and circular downpipes serve both front and rear elevations.

The east and west elevations are abutted by the adjoining buildings (No. 33 and No. 37 respectively).

The south (rear) elevation is constructed in brick across three storeys with attic. The right bay of the main block comprises a projecting timber box bay to ground floor with a single 6/6 timber sliding sash window to first and second floors. The box bay has three-pane fixed lights to east and west faces, while the south face contains a pair of three-pane 1/2 fixed lights surmounted by single pane casements. The left bay is abutted by a rear return with an exposed 6/3 timber sliding sash window.

A small rendered pitched-roof three-storey rear return projects to the left, abutted by a larger pitched-roof three-storey return. This is in turn abutted by a rendered pitched-roof single-storey return, which abuts a rendered pitched-roof two-storey mews building running parallel to the main building.

The larger three-storey rear return has its north gable abutted by the small return, with the exposed south gable abutted by the single-storey return. The east face has a chamfered corner extending to first floor level and windows to each floor. The west face is blank.

The single-storey rear return has both north and south gables fully abutted, with its east face containing two 6/6 timber sliding sash windows.

The two-storey mews building to the rear is rendered with a slate roof and clipped eaves. Its north face (left bay) contains a single 6/6 timber sliding sash window to ground and first floor levels. The south face has a door opening to the far right and a window opening to the far left, with two blind former window openings to first floor level.

The property is set within a small enclosed yard to the rear, bounded by the two-storey mews building to the south.

Materials include natural slate roofing, cast-iron rainwater goods to north and south, brick and rendered walling, and timber windows throughout.