13 Fountain Street, Londonderry, Co. Londonderry, BT48 6QX

Victorian mid-terrace two-bay two-storey with attic polychromatic brick townhouse, Built c.1883. Rectangular on plan with projecting single storey rear return with pitched fibre cement roof. Principal elevation faces South-east onto Fountain Street overlooking former industrial buildings to the opposite side of the street set at the back of the pavement with natural slate pitched roof. Built as part of a terrace row of fourteen similar houses of this type lining the North-west side of Fountain Street. South-east elevation is set in English Garden Wall brick bond with Victorian industrial brickwork dressings in contrasting colour; ornamental projecting brick cornice at eaves level with double band of black brick dressings below; single segmental arch-headed window opening on the ground floor and two on the first floor; segmental arch-headed entrance door opening, one step up from pavement with non original painted six-panel timber door, with plain segmental headed fanlight above. All openings have red brick voussoirs to heads with three black bricks to the centre forming a ‘key-stone’ detail. Continuous decorative brick stringcourse in contrasting black colour occur on ground and first floors at sills and heads with a further row of black brick separated by three courses of red above sill and below head level. Ground and First floor windows are 4/4 timber sliding sash. All sills have painted finish. North-east and South-west sides are abutted by adjoining buildings No.11 and No.15 Fountain Street (HB01/19/094A) and (HB01/19/094C). North-west elevation to the rear is of painted rendered finish with single storey pitched roofed rear return running close to the South-east side of the historic city walls. The fenestration pattern is irregular with 4/4 and 2/2 timber sliding sash windows to rear elevation with windows to the South-west side of the rear elevation being set at half landing height. Pitched natural slate roof with a small roof light at the rear to the North-east (LHS). Black ridge tiles to the main roof. Black ridge tiles and fibre cement tiles to the rear return. Large redbrick chimney stack rising from the north-east side, centred on ridge with 6 clay pots, contrasting black brick course below projecting angled ‘saw-tooth’red brick course with a further black band three courses below. Cast aluminium guttering and circular downpipes to the front (SE) and rear (NW). Setting: Built as part of a terrace row of fourteen similar houses of this type lining the north-west side of Fountain Street which is located just outside and backing onto the historic city walls between New Gate and Ferry Quay Gate and to the east of St Columb's Cathedral (HB01/19/001). Materials: Roof Natural Slate RWG Cast Aluminium Walling Brick (SE) / Render (NW) Windows Timber sliding sash