4 Crawford Square, Londonderry

Three storey two bay rendered Italianate style terraced house built in 1871 to designs by Robert Collins. Rectangular plan form facing northeast with a three storey rendered return to rear with attached single storey kitchen and two storey outbuilding accessed from rear. Part of a terrace of sixteen buildings on a sloping site to the south west side of the tree lined Crawford Square, it is paired with, and symmetrical to, the adjacent No. 3 Crawford Square (HB01/22/003C). Pitched natural slate roof continuous with No. 3 Crawford Square and large rendered chimney with buff clay pots shared with No. 5 (HB01/22/003E). Timber fascia and moulded soffit with paired block modillions; half round cast iron guttering discharging to circular cast iron downpipe on No. 3. The front elevation has a two storey three sided canted bay with parapet to right of entrance, recessed panels between the first and second storey and moulded cills and strings. Window openings have segmental arched heads and 1/1 double hung timber sliding sash windows with moulded horns. The first floor window over the main entrance door has a moulded architrave with stop blocks and moulded cill shared with No. 3 Crawford Square. The recessed arched doorcase has a moulded soffit, tiled step and contains an original four panelled door with glazed upper panels and plain semi-circular fanlight over. The doorcase has a hood mould with keystone and decorative console brackets. The rear elevation is rendered with square headed window openings having 6/6 double hung sliding sashes at first and second floors; 2/2 sashes to ground floor opening. The three storey return has a hipped natural slate roof with blue-black hip and ridge tiles and rendered chimney with moulded corbel, shared with the return of No. 3 Crawford Square. The return is also rendered with square-headed window openings, 6/6 timber sashes to the upper floors and a glazed door leading to the rear yard. An attached single storey brick built outshot does not extend the full width of the return and has a gabled monopitch natural slate roof, timber bargeboard and uPVC rainwater goods, replacement uPVC window and timber door to northwest side. From the rear yard of the building 5 steps up lead to a stone built outbuilding with brick surrounds to openings and a pitched natural slate roof. This building forms part of the stepped row of outbuildings associated with the houses on Crawford Square which front onto Academy Road. Setting: Facing north east over tree lined Crawford Square green, the main house is set back from the footpath and slightly elevated. It is approached by a path and a short flight of stone steps shared with the adjacent property with an original cast iron boot scraper to the top step and has a modest front garden laid out in gravel and enclosed by a hedge. Roof Natural Slate RWGs Cast Iron/uPVC Walling Painted Render Windows Timber Sash