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

33 Fountain Street, Londonderry

A Victorian mid-terrace two-storey townhouse with attic, built around 1883. The house features polychromatic brick construction with a fibre cement roof and occupies a distinctive cranked plan position at a bend in Fountain Street.

The building was constructed as part of a terrace of fourteen similar houses. Number 33 differs from its neighbours due to its cranked plan form, which allowed it to follow the street's geometry.

The south-east principal elevation faces onto Fountain Street and overlooks former industrial buildings opposite. The brickwork is set in English Garden Wall bond with Victorian industrial brick dressings in contrasting colours. An ornamental projecting brick cornice marks the eaves level, with a double band of black brick below. The elevation displays two segmental arch-headed window openings to the ground floor and two to the first floor, one positioned on each facet of the façade. A single pitched roof dormer sits above the first-floor windows. A segmental arch-headed entrance door opening is also present. All window and door heads feature red brick voussoirs with three black bricks at the centre forming a keystone detail. Continuous decorative brick stringcourses in contrasting black colour run at sill and head level on both ground and first floors, with a further row of black brick separated by three courses of red brick positioned above sill and below head level. All sills are stone with a painted finish. At the time of survey, window openings carried graphic panels depicting original fenestration.

The north-east and south-west sides are abutted by adjoining properties (Nos. 31 and 35 Fountain Street).

The north-west rear elevation has a painted rendered finish with a single window opening to the ground floor and a pair of windows to the first floor, which were boarded at survey. A single pitched roof dormer to the north-east side features a panel depicting a paired window. A single-storey flat-roofed extension extends from the rear, though partially missing.

The pitched fibre cement tiled roof carries black ridge tiles to the main roof and is partially patched with timber sheet boarding. A large red brick chimney stack rises from the north-east side, centred on the ridge, with six clay pots and a double band of black brick below a projecting decorative brick course with render above the projection.

The south-east boundary to the rear yard is formed by the historic city walls. U-PVC rainwater goods are fitted to the front (south-east) elevation on drive-through brackets, whilst rainwater goods are missing from the rear (north-west).

The property sits on the north-west side of Fountain Street, which is located just outside and backs onto the historic city walls between New Gate and Ferry Quay Gate, to the east of St Columb's Cathedral.