61 Claredon Street

61 Clarendon Street is a Victorian mid-terraced three-storey townhouse over basement, built around 1872. It forms part of a row of four terraced houses (two pairs), and sits within a larger terrace of ten similarly scaled townhouses lining the south side of Clarendon Street.

The principal north elevation features painted render to the ground floor and Flemish brick bond to the upper floors. The ground floor has a round-arch opening to the doorway, with a painted timber four-panelled diamond door and plain fanlight above. Windows throughout are 1/1 timber sliding sash, with round-headed openings at ground floor level (fitted with bull-nosed cills and moulded apron panels), square-headed at first floor, and segmental-arched at second floor. A shoulder-course runs between each window, with hood moulds and flying keystones providing architectural detail. The dormer is small and duo-pitched. The basement level is accessed by galvanised steel steps from the front, with three square-headed openings: two 1/1 sliding sash windows to the left and a door to the right, positioned below the entrance step.

The east and west sides are abutted by adjoining buildings (59 and 63 Clarendon Street). The south elevation is three storeys with smooth rendered rear returns that step down in height towards the rear. An outhouse, set at right angles, spans the full width of the yard at one-and-a-half storeys, clad in horizontal timber boarding to its roof slope with a modern casement window. A fire escape stair is discharged from a door on the east face of the middle return.

The pitched slate roof features black clay ridge tiles and a large red-brick chimney stack, rebuilt and centred on the ridge with nine terracotta pots. The eaves display polychromatic brick detailing, with cast-iron guttering supported on corbel brackets and a cast-iron downpipe to the front elevation.

The property is set behind a low rendered wall enclosing the basement, topped with a sandstone coping and ornate cast-iron railings painted black. The rear outhouse has a slate roof with black clay ridge tile, clipped eaves, and uPVC guttering. The building sits within the Clarendon Street Conservation Area, just above the junction of Clarendon Street and Princes Street.