36 Great James Street, Londonderry, Co. Londonderry, BT48 7DA

36 Great James Street is a mid-Victorian, mid-terraced house of two bays and three storeys over basement, built in 1871–72. It is constructed as part of a terrace grouping with Numbers 38 and 40 Great James Street, among similar houses of this type lining the north side of Great James Street.

The building is rectangular on plan with a pitched slate roof and tall chimney stack to the east, the latter rebuilt in modern red brick. The principal elevation faces south, accessed directly from street level by one step up. The south-facing principal elevation is of smooth painted rendered walls with square-headed window openings on painted masonry sills. A continuous painted sill runs across the first floor level. The ground, first, and second floors are fitted with 2/2 timber sliding sashes, with bays on the ground floor aligned with window bays on the floors above. The basement level has a replacement 2/2 uPVC casement window.

The entrance doorcase is notable, comprising timber panelled pilasters on plinth blocks with plaster console brackets featuring acanthus leaf detail either side of a recessed two-panel raised and fielded timber double doors. A moulded timber cornice sits below a plain elliptical glazed fanlight. The eaves are fitted with replacement uPVC ogee guttering on rise and fall brackets, terminating in a cast iron circular downpipe to the right. A red brick chimney stack to the east side carries six clay pots, with one pot missing.

The north elevation to the rear comprises three storeys of smooth cement rendered unpainted walls, with a smooth plain render painted finish to the rear return. A lean-to slated pitched roof with modern velux roof lights covers this section. Square-headed window openings sit on unpainted masonry sills, with an irregular fenestration pattern combining both timber sliding sash and largely replacement timber and uPVC casement windows.

A large modern single storey extension to the rear return features a slated monopitch roof with four velux rooflights, uPVC rainwater goods, and uPVC windows and doors. Since the Second Survey, a single storey conservatory with pitched roof and PVC glazed roof has been constructed to the rear of the existing single-storey extension, with rendered blockwork gable walls to each side and metal coping to the verges rising above garden walls.

The east and west sides are adjoined to neighbouring properties Numbers 34 and 38 Great James Street. The pitched slate roof carries clay ridge tiles, and the rebuilt red brick chimney stack with six clay pots rises from the east side, with modern velux to the front. uPVC ogee guttering on rise and fall brackets terminates at a cast iron circular downpipe to the front elevation, with uPVC rainwater goods to the rear.

The building is set within a terraced row of houses lining the north side of Great James Street, a steep hill running between St. Eugene's Cathedral to the west and Strand Road to the east. A large rear garden is enclosed by red brick and schist walling with a pedestrian timber gate to the north boundary. The building is located within the Clarendon Street Conservation Area.