3 Crawford Square, Londonderry

Three storey two bay rendered Italianate terraced house, built in 1871 to designs by Robert Collins. Rectangular plan form facing north east with a three storey rendered return with attached single storey outshot and two storey outbuilding accessed from rear. End of a terrace of sixteen buildings on a sloping site to the south west side of the tree lined Crawford Square, it is paired with, and symmetrical to, the adjacent No. 4 Crawford Square (HB01/22/003D). Pitched natural slate roof continuous with No. 4 Crawford Square and large rendered chimney with buff clay pots on southeast gable. Timber fascia boards and moulded soffit with paired block modillions; half round cast iron guttering discharging to circular cast iron downpipe. The front elevation has a two storey three sided canted bay with parapet to left of entrance, recessed panels between the first and second storey and moulded cills and strings. Window openings have segmental arched heads and 1/1 double hung timber sliding sash windows with moulded horns. The first floor window over the main entrance door has a moulded architrave with stop blocks and moulded cill shared with No. 3 Crawford Square. The recessed arched doorcase has a moulded soffit, natural stone step and contains an original four panelled door with glazed upper panels and plain semi-circular fanlight over. The doorcase has a hood mould with keystone and decorative console brackets. The rear elevation is rendered with square headed window openings having replacement uPVC top hung casement windows (where seen). The three storey return has a hipped natural slate roof with blue-black hip and ridge tiles and rendered chimney with moulded corbel, shared with the return of No. 4 Crawford Square. The return is also rendered with square-headed window openings and replacement uPVC top hung casement windows. An attached single storey brick built outshot does not extend the full width of the return and has a gabled monopitch natural slate roof. It is attached to a similar structure at the rear of No. 4. To the rear of the site is a stone built outbuilding with brick surrounds to openings and a pitched artificial slate roof. This building forms part of the stepped row of outbuildings associated with the houses on Crawford Square which front onto Academy Road. Setting: End terrace, facing north east over tree lined Crawford Square green. To the front, the building is set back from the footpath and slightly elevated. It is approached by a path and a short flight of stone steps, shared with the adjacent property, with an original cast iron boot scraper to the top step and having a modest front garden enclosed by a wall and painted metal railings. Roof Natural Slate RWGs Cast Iron Walling Painted Render Windows Timber Sash/uPVC