19 Fountain Street, Londonderry, Co. Londonderry, BT48 6QX

Victorian mid-terrace two-bay two-storey with attic polychromatic brick townhouse with fibre cement pitched roof. Built c.1883. Rectangular on plan with projecting two storey rear return with pitched roof. Principal elevation faces South-east onto Fountain Street overlooking former industrial buildings to the opposite side of the street set at the back of the pavement. Built as part of a terrace row of fourteen similar houses of this type lining the North-west side of Fountain Street. South-east elevation is set in English Garden Wall brick bond, partially repointed with Victorian industrial brickwork dressing in contrasting colour; ornamental projecting brick cornice at eaves level with double band of black brick dressings below; single segmental arch-headed window opening on the ground floor and two on the first floor; segmental arch-headed entrance door opening, level with pavement with six panel paintted timber front door with plain segmental headed fanlight above. All openings have red brick voussoirs to heads with three black bricks to the centre forming a ‘key-stone’ detail. Continuous decorative brick stringcourse in contrasting black colour occur on ground and first floors at sills and heads with a further row of black brick separated by three courses of red above sill and below head level. Ground and first floor windows are 1 over 1 timber sliding sash. All sills are have painted finish over stone sills. North-east and South-west sides are abutted by adjoining buildings No.17 (HB01/19/094D) Fountain Street and No.21 (HB01/19/094F) Fountain Street. North-west elevation to the rear is of painted rendered finish with two storey pitched roof return to right with single storey flat roofed extension behind. Single timber sliding sash window to both ground and first floors to exposed section of rear elevation. Two story extension constructed in painted fair faced block work with u-PVC casement window to North-west gable. South-east boundary formed by the historic city walls. Pitched fibre cement roof with a roof light at the rear to the North-east side (LHS). Black ridge tiles to the main roof. Large redbrick chimney stack rising from the north-east side, centred on ridge with 6 clay pots. Double band of black brick below a projecting decorative brick course to the chimney. Cast iron guttering to the front (SE) and cast aluminium to the rear (NW). Setting: Built as part of a terrace row of fourteen similar houses of this type lining the north-west side of Fountain Street which is located just outside and backing onto the historic city walls between New Gate and Ferry Quay Gate and to the east of St Columb's Cathedral (HB01/19/001). Materials: Roof Fibre cement RWG Cast iron to front (SE) / cast aluminium to rear (NW) / U-PVC to return Walling Brick (SE) / Painted render (NW) Windows Timber sliding sash (SE) / Timber sliding sash & u-PVC casements to rear (NW)