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

Victorian mid-terrace two-bay two-storey with attic polychromatic brick townhouse with natural slate 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 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, one step up from pavement with six panel hardwood 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 brick occur on ground and first floors at sill and head level 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 with exposed sash boxes. All sills are have painted finish over stone. North-east and South-west sides are abutted by adjoining buildings No.19 (HB01/19/094E) Fountain Street and No.23 (HB01/19/094G) Fountain Street. North-west elevation to the rear is of painted rendered finish with two storey pitched roof return to right with single storey monopitch extension behind containing coal houses. Single timber sliding sash window to both ground and first floors to exposed section of rear elevation with paired sliding sash to kitchen return facing yard. Two story extension is painted render with slate roof and single central window to rear (NW) at first floor level. South-east boundary is formed by the historic city walls. Pitched natural slate roof with a pair of small roof lights to both the front (SE) and rear (NW). Black ridge tiles to the main roof. Large redbrick chimney stack rising from the north-east side, centred on ridge with only 2 clay pots remaining. Double bands of black brick below a projecting decorative brick course to the chimney. U-PVC rain water goods to front (SE) and cast iron gutters on drive through brackets 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 Natural Slate RWG U-PVC to front (SE) / Cast iron to rear (NW). Walling Brick (SE) / Painted render (NW) Windows Timber sliding sash.