49 Clarendon St., Londonderry

Victorian mid-terraced two-bay three-storey brick Georgian-style townhouse, built c.1862. Rectangular on plan with projecting rear return, principal elevation faces north onto Clarendon Street set behind a low cement rendered wall with concrete coping and painted wrought-iron railings above. Built as part of a terrace row of similar houses of this type lining the north and south side of Clarendon Street. Slated pitched roof with single dormer to the front and rear. Principal elevation is set in Flemish brick bond on painted rendered plinth base; square-headed window openings set within painted concrete reveals and painted sills; all windows are 6/6 timber sliding sash with two windows to the ground, first and second floor levels; elliptical arched opening to entrance doorway with moulded cornice supported by scrolled corbel brackets on moulded pilasters, painted double-panelled timber door and plain fanlight above; a coupled 1/1 timber sliding sash to dormer window. East and West sides are abutted by adjoining building No.47 & No.51 Clarendon Street (HB01/21/00V & HB01/21/005X). South elevation is three-storeys set in Flemish brick bond with a three-storey unpainted cement rendered rear return, built at half-landing height with two modern velux roof lights to east side of slated pitched roof; ground floor level of site has been in filled with single storey flat roof extension. The fenestration pattern is regular, 6/6 sliding sash window to first and second floors, and 1/1 sliding sash to dormer window. Pitched slated roof has black clay ridge tiles to main roof, rear return and both dormers. Large brick chimney stack rising from the East side, centred on ridge with seven circular clay pots. Cast-iron guttering and circular downpipe to front. Setting: Built as part of a row of twelve mid-Victorian townhouses which line the south side of Clarendon Street. Located within the Clarendon Street Conservation Area, the front of the property faces north and is set behind a low cement rendered wall with concrete coping and painted wrought-iron railings above. Materials: Roof Natural Slate RWG Cast Iron Walling Flemish Brick Bond Windows Timber Sliding Sash