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

Victorian mid-terrace two-bay two-storey with attic polychromatic brick townhouse with natural slate pitched roof, built c.1883. Rectangular on plan with small projecting single storey rear return with corrugated monpitch steel 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 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 six panel stained hardwood timber 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 brick occur on ground and first floors at sill and head level 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 stained hardwood casements with top opening lights. All sills have painted finish. North-east and South-west sides are abutted by adjoining buildings No.25 (HB01/19/094H) Fountain Street and No.29 (HB01/19/094J) Fountain Street. North-west elevation to the rear is of painted rendered finish, with single storey return extension with corrugated steel monopitch roof. Window openings to the rear have been infilled with timber boarding. South-east boundary is formed by the historic city walls. Pitched fibre cement roof with red ridge tiles. Redbrick chimney stack rising from the north-east side, centred on ridge with 6 clay pots. Double bands of black brick below double projecting decorative sawtooth brick course below rendered capping. U-PVC rain water goods with half round gutters on drive through brackets to front and rear. 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 RWG U-PVC Walling Brick (SE) / Painted render (NW) Windows Timber casements (SE) / Boarded to rear.