Foyle & Londonderry College, Duncreggan Road, Londonderry, BT48 0AA

A suburban 2 storey villa in a neo renaissance style with smooth rendered and painted walls, projecting bays and porch and slated roofs. The entrance front is 3 bays wide, each two storey and semi-circular.The eastern bay is set forward. The bay has 3 square headed 2 pane sliding sash windows on the ground floor and 4 round headed windows on the first floor. The piers between the windows are treated as pilasters with moulded base , capitals and moulded architraves. The entrance porch set in the angle of the projection has a bold arch with panelled pilasters on either side, architrave, keystone and frieze above with cornice and low balustrading forming an open parapet. The panelled door has side screens continued round the fanlight. Above the porch there is a single round headed window treated almost like an aedicule. The shallow rectangular single storey bay to the west on this façade has 3 windows. In the centre a 2 pane sliding sash window, square headed but having rounded corners at the top. On either side there are 2 narrow round headed 2 pane sliding sash windows of equal height.. Piers are treated as pilasters and above the window heads there is a frieze, cornice and balustrade similar to porch but lower. Over this bay a pair of round headed 2 pane sliding sash windows again treated as other first floor windows. There is a plinth with moulding lining with window cills. Between ground and first floor a double string course with frieze band between which is patterned on the semi-circular bay. Under the eaves there is a panelled frieze interspersed with modillions supporting cornice and then ogee gutters. All external wall angles have faceted quoins of equal width. Each façade is treated similarly though there is less decoration on the rear elevation and it is obscured by steel fire escape stairs and additions. Roofs are slated and appear to be recently done and it is likely the ridges had cresting or some form of decorative treatment. Chimney stacks finished in smooth rendering, panelled and finished with moulded cornice and corbels. The east and west facades though differing in detail are similar in treatment. The villa is set well back from the Duncreggan Road with short avenue approach. There are ample grounds well kept with many mature trees. The original curved conservatory is gone and replaced by a smaller rectangular version with pitched roof. The line of the avenue has been changed and the original gate piers (see HB01/25/008B) set in a recess in a random stone wall look forlorn. The house now contains the offices, board room and meeting rooms for the Foyle and Londonderry College.