58 Northland Road, Londonderry, Co. Londonderry, BT48 0AL

58 Northland Road is a Grade B2 mid-terrace three-storey townhouse with attic, built in 1869 to designs by architect John Guy Ferguson. It forms part of a terrace of three similar Italianate style buildings (numbers 56, 58 and 60) situated on an elevated site on the west side of Northland Road in Londonderry, overlooking the River Foyle.

The building is constructed of rendered masonry with a rectangular plan form and faces north-east. It has a two-bay front elevation with a three-storey rendered return built at half-landing height, which steps down to a single-storey extension. The building now contains flats.

The pitched natural slate roof features a tall smooth rendered unpainted two-stage chimney stack to the right side (shared with number 60), clay roll-top ridge tiles, half-round cast-iron guttering and circular painted cast-iron downpipes.

The front north-east elevation displays channelled rusticated render to the ground floor with smooth painted plaster above to the first and second floors. A decorative cornice with narrow fielded panels and roundels is supported by paired corbel brackets projecting at the eaves. The entrance contains three-panel timber double doors with roundels at mid-height, a square-headed fanlight above within a shouldered arch, and plaster architrave with rope-mould and vermiculated keystone and blocks. To the left of the doorway is a two-storey hipped roof canted bay topped with cast-iron cresting. Ground and first floor windows are square-headed 2/2 timber sliding sashes. The first floor window to the right is an aedicule with foliate console brackets. Second floor windows are segmental arched 2/2 timber sliding sashes with shouldered architraves on a continuous sill course. A roof dormer on the left features a round-arched 1/1 timber sliding sash window with decorative timber fascia and cast-iron finial. A small modern rooflight is located to the right side.

The south-east side elevation abuts the adjacent property number 56. The south-west rear elevation is smooth unpainted render with a three-storey return on the left built at half-landing level, abutted by a single-storey return. A square-headed 1/1 timber sliding sash window is located at second floor level with an aligned window below on the first floor (top only visible at survey). A segmental arched 1/1 timber sliding sash window is positioned above the rear return roof on the rear wall. The rear return contains replacement timber casement windows to the first and second floor landing levels. A smooth rendered buttress wall with sloping slate-clad top is located to the left of the rear return at first floor level. A matching roof dormer is present on the rear elevation. The north-west side elevation abuts adjacent property number 60.

To the rear of the site is a two-storey outbuilding constructed of local schist walling with redbrick dressed windows. It contains a replacement timber casement window to the left; the right section is covered in ivy. The south-west elevation has square-headed openings built up in block and redbrick with a single corrugated sheeted door to the right. The outbuilding has a pitched artificial slate roof with clay roll-top ridge tiles and replacement uPVC rainwater goods.

The site is set on elevated ground overlooking the River Foyle to the east. The small front garden is enclosed by a low rendered plinth wall with capping stone and metal railings. The rear garden is bounded by a schist boundary wall and the schist outbuilding. The front elevation forms part of the terrace row of three rendered buildings at the junction of Northland Road and Eden Terrace.