23 Aberfoyle Terrace, Strand Road, Londonderry, County Londonderry, BT48 6SE

Late-Victorian mid-terrace two-bay two-storey with attic level red brick townhouse with polychromatic brick dressings, built c.1903 to designs by the architect W.A. Barker. Rectangular on plan with projecting rear return. Principal elevation faces East onto Strand Road, set behind a red-brick plinth wall with concrete capping and modern metal railing. Built as part of a terrace row of seventeen similar houses of this type lining the west side of Strand Road. Natural slated pitched roof to front with a two-stage polychromatic brick chimney stack rising from the north side. Principal elevation (E) is of Flemish brick bond with yellow brick dressings, projecting brick cornice at eaves; canted single storey bay to ground floor level to right side with hipped roof, continuous painted sill course to first floor windows spanning the width of the elevation; segmental arch-headed window openings to canted bay and first floor windows, round-headed opening to wall-headed gable dormer window with painted apex fascia board. 2/2 timber sliding sash windows to canted bay, first floor and to dormer window. Segmental arch-headed opening to entrance doorway, three steps up from the pavement with painted 4-panelled door with plain fanlight above. North and South sides are abutted by adjoining buildings No.21 & 25 Aberfoyle Terrace (HB01/22/014J & HB01/22/014L). West elevation to the rear is three-storey of cement rendered painted finish, abutted by a three-storey cement rendered and painted rear return built at half-landing height. The fenestration pattern is irregular with timber sliding sash windows to rear elevation, timber casement window to pitched roof dormer and timber casement and tilt & turn windows to rear return. Artificial slate to rear slop and return. Pitched slate roof has terracotta clay ridge tiles to main roof, dormer and rear return. Large polychromatic brick chimney rising from the north side, centred on ridge with six circular clay pots. Cast-iron guttering and circular downpipe to front. Setting: Aberfoyle Terrace is located on the western side of Strand Road, situated to the immediate north of Derry city centre. Magee College (University of Ulster) is located at high level to the immediate rear (west) of the terrace. It is within the Magee Conservation Area. The River Foyle is located to the east. Materials: Roof : Natural Slate (E) / Artificial slate (W) RWG : Cast Iron Walling : Brick Windows: Timber Sliding Sash (E) & (W) / Timber tilt & turn to rear return