25 Strand Road, Londonderry, Co. Londonderry, BT48 7BJ

Victorian mid-terraced three-storey commercial building, built in 1895, located on the west side of Strand Road in Londonderry with the River Foyle to the east. The building sits within a terrace of red brick and rendered commercial structures positioned outside and between the boundaries of the Historic City and Clarendon Street Conservation Areas.

The principal elevation faces east onto Strand Road and is constructed of red brick laid in stretcher bond to the upper floors. Three bays wide, the upper floors are divided vertically by brick piers, with the middle bay being wider than the two flanking bays. Painted stucco pilasters with v-joints mark either end of the elevation. A low balustraded parapet wall with decorative painted ironwork balustrade runs above, supported between rendered piers with rendered decorative finials on urns. A pedimented red brick wall-head dormer, centred on the elevation, contains a segmental arched 8/2 timber sliding sash window.

The ground floor consists of a modern shop-front with two large glazed display panes to the left of a square-headed timber and glazed door with a plain glazed transom light over. Bold signage and tiled surround surround this level, with a large signage board surmounted to the fascia above within a painted timber surround.

The upper floors feature segmental arched heads to all windows. The first floor windows are timber sliding sash with 8 upper lights and a single pane lower light, except the right-side pane which has a 2-light section to the lower pane. Second floor windows are also timber sliding sash with decorative glazing bars to the upper lights and single pane lower lights. Each upper floor window features a brick keystone within brick voussoirs. Above the second floor windows, a moulded egg and dart frieze sits beneath a deep projecting cornice with modillion blocks.

The roof is pitched slate with terracotta clay ridge tiles behind the parapet. The building is rectangular on plan.

The south side adjoins No. 23 Strand Road, with the gable-end projecting above the roofline of this neighbour. The gable walling is of cement-rendered unpainted finish with concrete skews to the gable heads. The north side adjoins No. 27 Strand Road, which is similar in style.

The west rear elevation is abutted by a two-storey cement-rendered rear return with uPVC guttering to the timber fascia board. The rear main elevation is of blank cement-rendered unpainted finish to the upper floors. The rear return walls are blank cement-rendered unpainted finish where visible, with uPVC guttering to the west elevation. The rear return is roofed with man-made fibre cement tiles and black clay ridge tiles.

Materials include natural slate roofing, uPVC guttering (west), red brick walling with stucco dressings, and timber sliding sash windows.