10 Crawford Square, Londonderry

10 Crawford Square, Londonderry

A three-storey, two-bay rendered terraced house built in 1871 to designs by Robert Collins, designed in the Italianate style. The building is part of a terrace of sixteen properties arranged on a sloping site on the south-west side of the tree-lined Crawford Square. It is paired with and symmetrical to the adjacent No. 9 Crawford Square, with which it shares a continuous pitched natural slate roof and a large rendered chimney with buff clay pots (the chimney is also shared with No. 11).

The main front elevation faces north-east and features a two-storey, three-sided canted bay with parapet to the right of the entrance door. Between the first and second storeys are recessed panels with moulded cills and strings. The windows have segmental arched heads and contain 1/1 double hung timber sliding sash windows with moulded horns. The first floor window above the main entrance door has a moulded architrave with stop blocks and a moulded cill, shared with No. 9 Crawford Square. The recessed arched doorcase has a moulded soffit and tiled step, containing an original four-panelled door with glazed upper panels and a plain semi-circular fanlight over. The doorcase features a hood mould with keystone and decorative console brackets. The timber fascia boards and moulded soffit are detailed with paired block modillions; half-round cast iron guttering discharges to a circular cast iron downpipe shared with No. 9.

The rear elevation is rendered with square-headed window openings. The upper two floors have 6/6 double hung timber sliding sashes, whilst the ground floor has a 1/1 sash opening. The three-storey return has a hipped natural slate roof with blue-black hip and ridge tiles and a rendered chimney with moulded corbel, shared with No. 9. It is also rendered with square-headed window openings fitted with 6/6 timber sashes to the upper floors and a 1/1 sash to the ground floor. A timber sheeted door with glazed upper panel provides access to the rear yard.

An attached single-storey rendered outshot with a gabled monopitch natural slate roof extends from the return but does not span its full width. This outshot has replacement timber windows and replacement rise-and-fall bracket gutters. From the rear yard, five stone steps lead to a stone-built outbuilding, now rendered, with painted timber windows and door and a pitched roof covered with corrugated fibre cement. This outbuilding forms part of a stepped row of outbuildings associated with the Crawford Square properties, which front onto Academy Road. The Academy Road elevation is rough-cast rendered with a single painted door for access; other openings are blocked up.

The building is set back from the footpath and slightly elevated, facing north-east over the tree-lined Crawford Square green. It is approached by a path and short flight of stone steps shared with the adjacent property and has a modest front garden enclosed by a dwarf wall and painted metal railings.