13 Clarendon St., Londonderry

13 Clarendon Street, Londonderry

A mid-Victorian mid-terrace townhouse built around 1861. The building is a two-bay, three-storey structure with an attic, rectangular on plan with an extended rear return. It forms part of a single composition with numbers 11 and 15 Clarendon Street, set within a terrace of predominantly brick-faced townhouses in the Clarendon Street Conservation Area.

The principal elevation faces north and is rendered and painted, with deeply ruled detailing to the ground floor and smooth finish to the upper floors. It stands behind a low level painted rendered boundary wall. The entrance features a three-centred-arch opening with a recessed cornice supported by scrolled console brackets on pilasters either side. A painted timber four-panelled door with plain fanlight above sits within this opening. To the left of the door is a single tripartite timber sliding sash window (1/1, 1/1, 1/1) surmounted by a hood mould carried on scrolled console brackets. The first and second floors each have two square-headed windows that are not aligned with the ground floor opening. These windows are 1/1 timber sliding sash with continuous sill course and moulded surrounds to the first floor. All windows throughout are square-headed 1/1 timber sliding sash unless noted otherwise.

The roof is pitched natural slate with black clay ridge tiles. Large chimney stacks rise from the east and west gables, both centred on the ridge and finished with nine terracotta pots. Cast-iron guttering supported on iron brackets lines the front elevation, with cast-iron guttering and rainwater pipes and hopper to the rear. A small cast-iron rooflight sits on the west side of the front roof slope.

The east and west elevations are abutted by the adjoining buildings at numbers 11 and 15. The rear (south) elevation is constructed in brick using garden wall bond, three storeys with attic. A painted smooth-rendered three-storey pitched roof return projects to the left at half landing height, reducing to a modern two-storey return that is abutted by a modern two-storey block running parallel to the main building. The right bay of the rear elevation has single 1/1 timber sliding sash windows to ground, first and second floors. The exposed section of the left bay has a single 6/3 timber sliding sash window. The three-storey rear return's south face is abutted by a two-storey return with blank exposed section. Its east face has a modern timber door with glazed upper panel at ground floor and a single 1/1 timber sliding sash window to the first floor. The west face is blank. The modern two-storey return and adjoining block feature 1/1 timber sliding sash windows, rendered walls and pitched natural slate roofs.

The front of the property faces north onto Clarendon Street, accessed by three modern granite steps. A small hard-surfaced area lies behind the boundary wall. An enclosed yard occupies the rear, with a two-storey pitched natural slate roof rendered mews building to the rear of the site.