19 Clarendon St.

19 Clarendon Street is a mid-Victorian mid-terrace townhouse built around 1874. It is a two-bay, three-storey building with an attic, rectangular on plan with a projecting rear return. The property is the last of three distinctive buildings (numbers 17, 19 and 21) constructed in this terrace of twelve predominantly brick-faced townhouses, and it is located within the Clarendon Street Conservation Area.

The principal north-facing elevation is set behind a low rendered boundary wall surmounted by replacement metal railings. The ground floor is painted render, while the upper floors are faced in red Flemish bond brick with a rendered band at eaves level. The roof is natural slate with dormers to front and rear.

The entrance, positioned to the right of the elevation, is a square-headed opening surmounted by a projecting moulded cornice supported by a pair of pilasters in contrasting colour and console brackets with acanthus leaf detail. The entrance comprises paired half-leaf two-panelled painted timber doors with a square-headed three-pane overlight. Above the door, a window occupies each floor within a painted moulded surround, with the first-floor surround featuring keystone detail. These upper windows are not aligned with the entrance opening.

To the left is a two-storey rendered canted bay window with a window to each facet at each floor. Moulded string course marks the first-floor level, and moulded panels decorate each facet below a continuous sill course; a projecting moulded cornice sits above the first-floor windows. A paired window to the second floor surmounts the bay with continuous sill course and painted moulded surrounds. A segmental-arched 6/6 timber sliding sash window lights a pitched-roof dormer to the left.

All windows are 6/6 timber sliding sash, square-headed to ground floor and segmental-arched to upper floors, except where noted. A continuous sill course runs across the first-floor windows.

The east and west elevations are abutted by adjoining buildings (numbers 17 and 21 Clarendon Street respectively). The south (rear) elevation is cement-rendered and comprises three storeys with an attic. A four-storey cement-rendered pitched-roof rear return extends to the left at half-landing height. The fenestration to the rear is irregular: 6/6 timber sliding sash windows appear to ground, first and second floors, with a 6/3 timber sliding sash window at attic level. The rear return's south gable has irregular fenestration with a single 6/6 timber sliding sash window to first floor right and single 6/6 timber sliding sash windows to second and third floor left; the ground-floor level was not fully visible at the time of survey. The west face of the rear return is abutted by the return of number 21 Clarendon Street; the east face was not visible at survey.

The property is set back from Clarendon Street behind a small hard-surfaced forecourt area enclosed by the low rendered wall.