27 Aberfoyle Terrace, Strand Road, Londonderry, Co. Londonderry, BT48 7NP

Late-Victorian Edwardian mid-terrace two-bay two-storey with attic level red brick townhouse with polychromatic brick dressings, built c.1906 to designs by the architect W.A. Barker. Rectangular on plan with projecting rear return. Principal elevation faces east onto Strand Road, set behind a low brick wall with replacement painted metal railings above. Built as part of a terrace row of seventeen similar houses of this type lining the west side of Strand Road. Natural slated pitched roof with a two-stage polychromatic brick chimney stack rising from the north side. Principal elevation (E) is of Flemish brick bond with yellow brick dressings, projecting brick cornice at eaves; canted single storey bay to ground floor level at right side, continuous painted sill course to first floor windows spanning the width of the elevation; segmental arch-headed window openings to canted bay and first floor windows, round-headed opening to wall-headed gable dormer window with painted apex fascia board. 1/1 timber sliding sash windows to canted bay and first floor, casement window to dormer level. Segmental arch-headed opening to entrance doorway, two steps up from the pavement with a painted five-panel fielded timber door with plain fanlight above. North and South sides are abutted by adjoining buildings No.25 & 29 Aberfoyle Terrace (HB01/22/014L & HB01/22/014N). West elevation to the rear is two-storeys of cement rendered unpainted finished, abutted by a two-storey unpainted cement rendered rear return built at half-landing height stepping down to a single storey unpainted rendered extension spanning the length of the rear yard abutting rear boundary wall with timber sheeted and braced gate. The fenestration pattern is irregular with casement windows on painted masonry sills to the rear elevation, rear return and single storey extension. Pitched slate roof has terracotta clay ridge tiles to main roof, dormer and rear return. Large polychromatic brick chimney rising from the north side, centred on ridge with six circular clay pots. Cast-iron guttering and circular downpipe to front and rear, uPVC rainwater goods to rear return. Setting: Aberfoyle Terrace is located on the western side of Strand Road, situated to the immediate north of Derry city centre. Magee College (University of Ulster) is located at high level to the immediate rear (west) of the terrace. It is within the Magee Conservation Area. The River Foyle is located to the east. Materials: Roof : Natural Slate RWG : Cast Iron Walling: Brick Windows : Timber Sliding Sash (E) uPVC (W)