37 Clarendon St., Londonderry

37 Clarendon Street, Londonderry

A mid-terrace, two-bay, three-storey townhouse with attic, built in 1862 in Georgian style as part of a row of similar properties (numbers 29–35 and 39–51 Clarendon Street). The building is rectangular in plan with a projecting rear return.

The principal north elevation faces Clarendon Street and is set behind a low rendered wall topped with black painted replacement metal railings with silver finials set in a sandstone coping. The elevation is constructed in Flemish brick bond with a rendered plinth. A three-centred-arch opening contains the entrance doorway with a moulded surround, flanked by Doric order columns supporting a recessed moulded cornice. The door is timber, four-panelled, and surmounted by an Adam-style fanlight. Window openings are square-headed with painted cement rendered reveals and painted sills. To the left of the door is a single 8/8 timber sliding sash window, with two windows on each of the first and second floors; these upper windows are not aligned with the ground floor opening. A narrow pitched-roof dormer is centred on the elevation, containing a 6/3 timber sliding sash window. All other windows throughout are 6/6 timber sliding sash unless otherwise noted. The pitched natural slate roof has black clay ridge tiles, cast-iron guttering, and circular downpipes to front and rear. A single pitched-roof dormer runs front and rear. A large brick chimney stack rises from the east side, centred on the ridge, with seven clay pots.

The east and west elevations are abutted by the adjoining buildings at numbers 35 and 39 Clarendon Street respectively.

The south (rear) elevation is brick construction, three storeys with attic. A small brick pitched-roof three-storey rear return to the left is abutted by a brick pitched-roof (half-hipped to the north) single-storey return, which is further abutted by a brick and rendered corrugated mono-pitched-roof single-storey return. This single-storey return abuts a rendered mono-pitched-roof mews building which runs parallel to the main building.

The right bay of the main rear block comprises an 8/8 timber sliding sash window to the ground floor, with a single 6/6 timber sliding sash window on the first and second floors aligned over the right reveal of the ground floor window. The left bay is abutted by the rear return; the exposed section has a 6/3 timber sliding sash window. The small three-storey rear return south gable is abutted by the single-storey return at ground floor; its exposed section has a 6/6 timber sliding sash window on the first and second floors, the first-floor window fitted with a metal security grill.

The three-storey rear return's east face comprises a door opening to the ground floor with a single diminutive 2/2 timber sliding sash window on the first and second floors aligned over the right reveal of the door. Its west face is blank. The single-storey pitched-roof return (half-hipped to the north) is fully abutted to the north by the three-storey return. Its south face is abutted by the single-storey mono-pitched-roof return; the exposed section is blank. Its east face has a single metal casement window at the far left. Its west face is blank.

The single-storey mono-pitched-roof return is fully abutted to the north and south by the single-storey pitched-roof return and the mono-pitched-roof mews building respectively. Its east face has a four-pane timber window at the far right and two casement windows to the left. Its west face is blank.

The single-storey mews building, constructed with rendered brick and corrugated metal mono-pitched roof, stands at the rear of the site. Its north face is abutted to the right by the single-storey mono-pitched-roof return, and features a central timber casement window and a vertically sheeted timber door at the far left. Its east face is fully abutted by the mews building of number 35 Clarendon Street. Its west face is fully abutted by the mews building of number 39 Clarendon Street. Its south face was not viewed at survey.

The building is set within the Clarendon Street Conservation Area and was constructed as part of a row of twelve mid-Victorian townhouses lining the south side of Clarendon Street. A small enclosed yard to the rear is bounded by the single-storey mews building to the south.

Materials: roof of natural slate; rainwater goods of cast iron to north and south elevations; walling of brick; windows of timber.