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

58 Northland Road is a mid-terrace three-storey-with-attic, two-bay rendered Italianate-style townhouse, built in 1869 to designs by John Guy Ferguson (c.1830–1901), one of Londonderry's most prominent Victorian architects. It forms the centre house of a terrace of three — known collectively as "Edenbank" — situated on an elevated site on the west side of Northland Road, between nos. 56 and 60 (which are listed separately). The building has since been subdivided into flats.

Ferguson was a partner in the practice of Frazer, Ferguson & Frazer in 1861 and was appointed architect to the Church of Ireland diocese of Derry and Raphoe in 1868. He was responsible for many of Londonderry's best-known buildings, including St. Augustine's Church, the Apprentice Boys' Memorial Hall, the extension to St. Columb's Cathedral, and the design of the first Guildhall. The terrace was built by Alexander McElwee, a prominent local contractor who frequently collaborated with Ferguson, and was commissioned by James McNeill, a steamboat agent whose company operated from Shipquay Street. The Irish Builder of November 1869 described the terrace as possessing "pleasing Italian elevations" with "deeply recessed doorways with crested bays rising two storeys."

The construction of nos. 56–60 Northland Road was part of the northward expansion of Londonderry, which accelerated following the opening of Magee College in 1865 and a sustained period of economic growth that lasted from the 1860s through to the end of the 19th century. The surrounding area of Edenballymore and the Northland Road had previously been rural in character. Other terraces built in the vicinity during this period include College Terrace, Clarence Avenue, Florence Terrace, and Crawford Square.

No. 58 was valued at £35 in the Annual Revisions of 1870. James McNeill initially leased it to a Mr. John Cooke, before it passed to Ms. Jane Watters, originally from New York, in 1876; she remained at Edenbank until her death in 1882. Minchin Percy Lloyd, a local magistrate and land agent, acquired the house in the 1880s and lived there until his death in 1907. By 1911 it was occupied by the Reverend James Pyper, minister of Strand Road Presbyterian Church. The 1911 census describes No. 58 as a first-class dwelling of 13 rooms, with a coach house and stable among its outbuildings. Under the First General Revaluation of Property in Northern Ireland (1936–57), ownership had passed to a Mr. James Mitchell, who continued to lease it to ministers of Strand Road Presbyterian Church; its value had by then risen to £40. In the 1950s the house was purchased by the Trustees of Londonderry High School and converted into school offices, which increased its valuation to £98 by the end of the Second Revaluation (1956–72). An outline planning application for a 70-bed hotel on the site of nos. 56–60 was submitted in November 2004 but withdrawn in July 2006. The three houses were included in the Magee Conservation Area in 2006, after which the Magee Conservation Area Baseline Audit identified the terrace as buildings at risk, describing them as "very fine three-storey houses" of "very high architectural quality" that "differ considerably in their detailing from other terraces" in the city, and noting that they "appear to be the only plastered and painted terrace in the city with horizontal astragal divisions in the sash windows."

The building has a rectangular plan form facing north-east, with a three-storey rendered return built at half-landing height, which steps down to a single-storey extension overlooking a long enclosed garden. There is a local schist outbuilding to the rear of the site.

The pitched slate roof has tall, smooth rendered unpainted two-stage chimney stacks to the right side, shared with no. 60. The ridge is finished with clay roll-top ridge tiles, and the rainwater goods consist of half-round cast-iron guttering discharging to a circular painted cast-iron downpipe.

The front (north-east) elevation is three storeys with attic. The ground floor is finished in channelled rusticated render, while the first and second floors are in smooth painted plaster. A decorative cornice features narrow fielded panels and roundels, with paired corbel brackets supporting a projecting eaves. The doorway contains three-panel timber double doors with roundels at mid-height and a square-headed plain fanlight above, all set within a shouldered arch with a plaster architrave incorporating a rope-mould and vermiculated keystone and blocks. To the left of the doorway is a two-storey canted bay with a hipped roof surmounted by cast-iron cresting. The 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. The second-floor windows are segmental-arched 2/2 timber sliding sashes with slightly shouldered architraves on a continuous sill course. A roof dormer to the left has a round-arched 1/1 timber sliding sash window with decorative timber fascia and a cast-iron finial to the apex. There is a small modern rooflight to the right side.

The south-east side elevation abuts the adjoining no. 56. The north-west elevation abuts no. 60.

The rear (south-west) elevation is of smooth unpainted render. A three-storey return to the left is built at half-landing level and is abutted by a single-storey return. There is a square-headed 1/1 timber sliding sash window at second-floor level, with a square-headed window aligned below on the first floor (only the top of which was visible at the time of survey). A segmental-arched 1/1 timber sliding sash window is located above the roof of the rear return on the rear wall of the house. The rear return contains replacement timber casement windows to the first and second floor landing levels. A smooth rendered buttress wall to the left of the rear return rises to first-floor level with a sloping slate-clad top. There is a small roof dormer to the rear matching the style of the front dormer.

To the rear of the site stands a two-storey outbuilding of local schist walling with redbrick-dressed windows. The north-east elevation contains a replacement timber casement window to the left, while 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 remaining to the right side. The outbuilding has a pitched artificial slate roof with clay roll-top ridge tiles and replacement uPVC rainwater goods.

The building is set on the west side of Northland Road, on an elevated site with the River Foyle below to the east. A small front garden is enclosed by a low rendered plinth wall with capping stone and metal railings above. The rear garden is enclosed by a schist boundary wall, with the schist outbuilding at the rear. The front elevation faces north-east, forming part of a terrace row of three three-storey-with-attic rendered buildings at the junction of Northland Road and Eden Terrace.