8 Culmore Road, Londonderry, BT48 7RJ

This is a late 19th-century merchants house built in the Georgian style. It was likely constructed in the 1880s as a residence for a Victorian merchant of the nearby city.

The house is a two-story, three-bay building with a projecting bow to the west. It has a man-made slate roof, painted concrete render with raised plaster quoins at the corners, and PVC windows designed to replicate the appearance of original sash windows. Modern PVC rainwater goods are also present. The main facade faces south and is at a right angle to Culmore Road. The bow features triple sash windows, now replicated in PVC. Single imitation sash windows are present at ground and first floor levels in each bay, with those at ground level having low cills. The east-facing secondary facade contains the main entrance door and a yellow brick chimney rising centrally from the eaves. The door features fine workmanship on the elliptical cobweb fanlight, and is set below a largely plain entablature with restrained decoration centrally and over flanking Doric columns. Dentils run along the upper edge of the entablature. The entrance is a six-panelled, painted door with brass ironmongery.

The rear north elevation includes a projecting return and a modernised stable block, forming a courtyard with the main house. Windows are irregularly positioned. To the west, the garden elevation has a centrally placed rendered chimney near the eaves, a ground-floor door, and two imitation sashes above. A projecting bay to the west has four windows. The building is situated on higher ground than the adjacent road, shielded from it by a high stone wall. Brick entrance pillars, flanking a pedestrian gate, show significant weathering towards the road. The original garden has been divided into two sites, with two new houses recently built. The building has been renovated, notably by a previous owner, Kevin Heinz, who was responsible for developing houses in the garden. The Deery family occupied the house in the 1970s and early 1980s. The interior features cornices of note, although other details are not of outstanding quality.