10 Clarence Avenue, Londonderry

Late-Victorian mid-terrace two-bay three-storey brick, Arts and Crafts style townhouse, built 1900 to designs by R. E. Buchanan. Rectangular on plan with projecting rear return built at half-landing level. Principal elevation faces South onto Clarence Avenue, set behind low red-brick wall. Part of a terraced row of eleven similar houses of this type, lining the north side of Clarence Avenue. Principle (S) elevation is of Flemish brick bond; two bays wide with a two-storey canted bay to right surmounted by a rectangular gabled bay to the second floor that is cantilevered on large timber brackets with carved timber corbels to either side. Vertical half-timber panelling to gable with plain wide painted timber fascia board. Terracotta finial to apex. All openings are square-headed, including the entrance doorway, five steps up, with moulded cornice supported on console brackets on moulded pilasters to either side of a four-panel fielded timber door with stained glass fanlight above. 1/1 sliding sashes with stained glass upper lights to canted bay on ground and first floor and the same type of window above door opening at first floor level. uPVC replacement windows to second floor level. Painted rendered band to ground and first floor window heads, painted sill course to first and second floor windows. East and West sides are abutted by adjoining buildings No. 8 & 12 Clarence Avenue (HB01/22/006D & HB01/22/006F). North elevation is of three-storeys with three-storey rear return built at half-landing level with a small red-brick chimney rising from the gable-end of the rear return, painted render finish to rear elevation and ground floor level only of rear return. Rear return has single-storey extension with slated duo-pitched roof and rendered finish. The fenestration pattern is irregular, 2/2 timber sliding sash windows to rear elevation of main house and uPVC casements to rear return and small extension. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta clay ridge tiles to the main roof and rear return. Large red-brick chimney stack with dog-toothed corbel rising from the East side, centred on ridge with clay pots. Cast-iron guttering and circular downpipes to the front elevation. Materials: Roof Natural Slate RWG Cast Iron (S) uPVC (N) Walling Brick (S) Render (N) Windows Timber Sliding Sash & uPVC (2nd Floor & rear return) Setting: Built as one of a terrace of eleven similar houses lining the north side of Clarence Avenue on a steep gradient, within the Magee Conservation Area, set back from the pavement with a small front garden. A slide-back timber door, painted red, spans almost the full width of the yard, with plain rendered surround and corrugated metal overhanging from lean-to roof on reverse side. The yard backs on to a shared alley with the University campus beyond.