8-9 Artillery Street, Londonderry, Co. Londonderry, BT48 6RG

Late Georgian mid-terrace three-storey five-bay smooth-rendered building with basement level, half above ground, built as a pair consisting of two separate dwellings with a coach archway centred on elevation to ground floor level, built pre 1832. Rectangular on plan with deep projecting cornice at eaves. Principal elevation faces east onto Artillery Street directly overlooking the City Walls, set within the Cathedral Quarter of the Historic Walled City. Slated pitched roof with paired rendered chimney stacks centred on ridge. Restoration and internal alterations completed 2011. Now vacant. Principal elevation is of smooth-rendered painted finish with a large elliptical archway centred on elevation with large sheeted modern timber entrance gates and dressed stone quoins to arched surround; all windows are square-headed with a single 6/6 timber sliding sash (not original) to either side of archway on ground floor, each flanked by a slightly recessed elliptical arch entrance doorway, left-side doorway is two-steps up with plain replacement architrave surround and four-panel timber door with plain fanlight above, doorway on the right is four-steps up with plain replacement architrave surround and four-panel timber door flanked by small replacement decorative console brackets. Square headed window opening to half basement level either side of carriage opening, blind window on left side, glass blocks to window on right side protected by metal grilles to window opening and on ground. Deep projecting stone cornice with hidden gutter detail, lead flashing to top of low parapet wall above. Cast-iron circular downpipe with hooper. North and South sides are abutted by adjoining properties No.7 Artillery Street (HB01/19/064) to the lower side and No.10 Artillery Street on the upper side. West elevation to the rear has been re-rendered during refurbishment works in 2010/11. Former rear returns are now demolished, original sliding sash windows and original raised-and-fielded timber doors and fanlights have also been removed during these works. Pitched slate roof has black clay ridge tiles, paired large rendered chimney stacks centred on the ridge, each aligned with the outer edge of the carriage archway with 8 & 9 octagon or circular-shaped buff clay pots. Note laundry to rear. Materials: Roof :Slated RWG :Cast Iron (E) uPVC (W) Walling: Render Windows :Timber Sliding Sash Setting: Located on the west side of Artillery Street within the Cathedral Quarter of the Historic Walled City Conservation Area, situated within a terrace row of houses of different types, directly overlooking the City Walls to the east side. Restoration and internal alterations completed 2011.