67 Clarendon Steet

67 Clarendon Street

A Victorian mid-terraced red brick townhouse built around 1863 in Georgian style, comprising two bays across three storeys with a dormer attic. The building forms part of a terrace of similar houses lining both sides of Clarendon Street within the Clarendon Street Conservation Area.

The principal elevation faces north and is constructed in Flemish bond brick with chamfered polychromatic brick detailing to window and door surrounds. The ground floor contains a single 8/8 timber sliding sash window on the left. The first and second floors each have two 6/6 timber sliding sashes. The main entrance is a segmental arched opening with a moulded cornice supported on decorative scrolled console brackets and moulded pilasters, containing a painted timber four-panelled door with a plain fanlight above. A second smaller segmental arched doorway sits to the right of the main entrance with similar surround treatment and a sheeted timber door featuring a plain openable fanlight. The eaves feature alternating single and paired corbel brackets. Above the eaves sits a single pitched roof dormer with coupled 1/1 timber sliding sash windows flanked by timber pilasters and topped by a pedimented gable. A large red brick chimney stack, also found at the neighbouring property, rises from the east gable and is centred on the ridge with seven octagonal clay pots.

The north elevation is set behind a low red-brick wall with double cant coping stone and replacement decorative painted wrought-iron railings; the coping stone has been infilled where historic railings formerly slotted in. The front door sits two steps above pavement level with the uppermost step in stone.

The east and west sides are abutted by adjoining buildings. The south elevation is three-storey with a two-storey rear return to the left, rendered in smooth unpainted finish. The fenestration is irregular with a combination of 4/4, 6/3 and 6/6 timber sliding sash windows. A coupled 1/1 timber sliding sash window to the rear dormer is detailed with the same pilaster and pediment treatment as the front. A single-storey red brick outbuilding at the rear contains both timber sliding sash and casement windows.

The pitched slate roof (of natural Bangor Blues slate on the rear outhouses, not discernible as natural slate from street level elsewhere) is fitted with black clay ridge tiles. Cast-iron guttering supported by corbel brackets runs across the front elevation with a cast-metal downpipe. Cast-metal guttering supported by iron out-and-up brackets runs across the rear elevation. Two replacement conservation roof lights are positioned either side of the front dormer, with a single roof light on the rear slope.

The property is set within a yard at the rear bound by local schist rubble stone walls. It forms part of a pair with the adjacent property at No. 69, both sitting within a wider terrace of ten townhouses that lines the south side of Clarendon Street between Princes Street and Francis Street.