5 Clarendon St., Londonderry

5 Clarendon Street, Londonderry

A mid-Victorian end-of-terrace townhouse built around 1861, this is a two-bay, three-storey building with an attic, constructed in red brick in Georgian style. It forms part of a row of twelve similar early to mid-Victorian houses lining the south side of Clarendon Street and sits within the Clarendon Street Conservation Area at the junction with North Edward Street.

The building is rectangular on plan with an extended rear return. The pitched roof is covered with natural slate and fitted with black clay ridge tiles. A large cement-rendered chimney stack with seven clay pots rises from the east gable, centred on the ridge. uPVC guttering runs along the front and rear elevations.

The principal elevation faces north and is set behind a low rendered wall enclosing a small hard-surfaced forecourt. This front elevation is built in Flemish bond brickwork with painted chamfered corner quoin stones to the left. The entrance features a three-centred-arch opening with a moulded cornice supported by Doric order columns on either side. The door is painted timber with four panels and a plain fanlight above. All window openings have square heads with painted cement-rendered reveals and painted sills. To the left of the door are paired diminished 1/1 timber sliding sash windows with a shared sill (the top sashes are diminished). The first and second floors each have two 6/6 timber sliding sash windows, which are not aligned with the ground floor openings.

The east gable elevation faces North Edward Street and is rendered in roughcast with painted chamfered corner quoin stones to the right. This elevation contains a diminutive uPVC casement window to the ground floor at the far left, a 6/6 timber sliding sash window off-centre to the left on the ground floor, a 2/2 timber sliding sash window to the first floor at the far left, a uPVC casement window directly above it on the second floor, and a diminutive window at attic level at the far right.

The west elevation is abutted by the adjoining building at No. 7 Clarendon Street.

The rear (south) elevation is three storeys with an attic. It comprises a left bay of brick with a small single-storey lean-to extension and a painted smooth-rendered right bay, abutted by a large pitched-roof three-storey return positioned at half-landing height. The left bay contains a single 6/6 timber sliding sash window to the first floor and a single diminutive 1/1 timber sliding sash window to the second floor (the ground floor was not visible at the time of survey). The exposed section of the right bay is blank. The rear return's east face has a flush door at the far right, a square-headed opening with a modern steel gate at the far left, and three irregularly spaced casement windows with grills between them. Five evenly spaced uPVC casement windows occupy the first and second floors. The west face of the return also has five evenly spaced uPVC casement windows to the first and second floors (ground floor not visible at survey). The south gable shows remnants of a two-storey extension now mostly demolished, along with a blocked-up door opening to the first floor left of centre and a blocked-up and rendered opening to the third floor left.

The main walling is brick with roughcast render applied to certain sections. Windows are a mix of timber (on the north elevation) and uPVC (on the east elevation and return).