Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB01/22/017 A

Address :
1 Bayview Terrace Asylum Road Londonderry Co. Londonderry BT48 7EE

Townland:
Edenballymore

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Survey 2:
B1

Date of Listing:
26/02/1979 00:00:00

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Office - Terrace

Former Use
House - Terrace

Conservation Area:
Yes

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
36-4SW

IG Ref:
C4332 1730

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Owner Category

Exterior Description And Setting

End-of-terrace two-bay three-storey with attic level, rendered mid-Victorian house, built in 1870. Rectangular plan form facing north with rendered banded rustication to ground floor (rendered quoins to corner of first and second floors) and a large three-storey rendered return to rear which is abutted by adjoining three-storey extension with a low parapet wall to flat roof behind. Part of a terrace of seven buildings of similar type and style lining the south side of Asylum Road (HB01/22/017A-G). Hipped natural slate roof has two small pitched roof dormers, one to the front and one to the west side; three chimney stacks, two two-stage rendered and brick chimneys, one rising from the west end with terracotta clay pots, the other rising from the south end of the main house with buff clay pots, third rendered chimney stack rising from the south end of the rear return. Timber fascia and slightly overhanging timber soffit; half round cast iron guttering discharging to circular cast aluminium downpipe on the west elevation. The front elevation (N) has a two-storey three-sided canted bay rising from ground floor to first floor level to the right hand side of the entrance with entablatures and a plain frieze above the lower window and blind fretwork to the upper frieze with dentilled moulding to the parapet above, timber casement windows to canted bay; rendered banded rustication to ground floor level, continuous sill course to first floor windows; remaining window openings are square headed with moulded architrave surrounds and 1/1 double hung timber sliding sashes with moulded horns. The recessed elliptical arched door case, two steps up is flanked by rendered square pilasters and entablature above, plain fanlight to a pair of recessed single panel timber doors, framed by moulded square pilasters of the Doric order and moulded entablature with decorative acanthus leaf detail to crown moulding above; rendered corner quoins to the northwest corner of front and side elevation at first and second floor level; small pitched roof dormer on main slate roof, centred above second floor windows has a semicircular 1/1 timber sliding sash window. Tiled steps rendered over leading to entrance doorway. East side of No.1 is abutted by No.2 Bayview Terrace (HB01/22/017B). Rear elevation (S) is abutted by a three-storey return with a pitched slate roof and black ridge tiles, the south elevation of rear return is topped by a large rendered painted chimney stack with three octagon-shaped buff clay pots; rear return gable is abutted by a three-storey flat roof extension spanning the full length of the site abutting neighbouring former manse. West Side elevation of main block faces onto Queen Street and has six square headed window openings, two aligned on each floor level, left side bay on ground floor is entirely blocked up, small pitched slate roof dormer, off centre of elevation has a concealed plywood window; west elevation to rear return has an oriel window with curved edges to first and second floor level, lower window has a uPVC casement window with a steel framed window to the upper floor; remaining windows are square headed 1/1 timber sliding sashes, two on ground floor, one left of oriel window on first and second floors and two of the same to attic level with margin panes; exposed section of rear return gable has a window opening to the right hand side at second floor level (remainder of rear return not viewed at time of survey). West elevation of rear flat roof extension has a square headed door opening to left side containing a vertically sheeted timber door with plain architrave surround and fanlight above; windows are square headed with 1/1 timber sliding sashes; concrete coping to solid parapet. Setting: Located on a corner site to the south side of Asylum Road and east side of Queen Street set behind a low stone wall with steel railings above, the front main entrance is approached by a short flight of stone steps, set within a terrace row of seven houses of similar type and style facing north situated within the Clarendon Street Conservation Area. Materials: Roof Natural Slate RWGs Cast Iron Walling Painted Render Windows Timber Sliding Sash & Timber casements

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Bayview Terrace, a row of seven three-and-a-half-storey mid-Victorian townhouses located at the lower end of Asylum Road, was laid out in 1870. The terrace was first recorded in the Annual Revisions in 1870 and was first depicted on the c. 1873 Annual Revisions Plan of Londonderry. Asylum Road which runs between the Strand and Northland Roads dates from before 1830 and so predates the streets of the Clarendon Street Conservation Area which were laid out between c. 1837 and the 1860s. The Road formed the southern border of the Londonderry District Lunatic Asylum which was built in 1825-29. The asylum was demolished in the 1960s but the perimeter wall of locally-quarried Derry Schist continues to stand opposite Bayview Terrace noting the original boundary of the institution. The second edition Ordnance Survey map records that no buildings had been constructed along Asylum Road by 1853. Nos 1-13 Asylum Road, located at the top of the hill, were the first houses to be erected in c. 1860. The development of this row was contemporary with the laying out of the Georgian-style terraces along Queen Street and Clarendon Street. The three-and-a-half-storey buildings were similar in style and scale to the houses of the adjoining streets the majority of which had been erected between 1847 and the 1860s. Nos 1-7 Bayview Terrace were constructed a decade after the completion of nos 1-13 Asylum Road and display a more Victorian character than their Georgian-style neighbours. The terrace possesses a number of ornate features such as door frames that have Doric columns and entablatures. Nos 1, 4 and 7 Bayview Terrace possess bay windows with entablatures bearing fretwork frieze decorations. The terrace was named Bayview due to its location close the banks of the Foyle which afforded the houses a scenic view over Rosses Bay. The reclamation of land and the construction of buildings on the eastern side of the Strand Road has deprived the row of its former view (Calley, pp 21-22). The architect of the buildings is not known although the Annual Revisions note that the terrace was built on land owned by Harvey Nicholson, a local magistrate and Justice of the Peace. (Ulster Town Directories). No. 1 Bayview Terrace, along with the adjoining nos 2-7, was constructed in 1870. The Annual Revisions notes that the house was originally valued at £57 and was occupied by Matthew McClelland, a local magistrate and builder who leased the whole terrace from Harvey Nicholson. McClelland leased nos 2-7 Bayview Terrace out to tenants. McClelland’s family continued to be landlord of the majority of the row until the 1970s. As with the neighbouring streets, the townhouses on Bayview Terrace became the residences of Londonderry’s professional and merchant classes. In 1911 the property was occupied by Joseph Dean, a local magistrate and commercial trader. In that year the census building return described No. 1 Bayview Terrace as a 1st class dwelling that consisted of 12 rooms. The First General Revaluation of Property in Northern Ireland (1936-57) increased the value of the house to £68 and noted that the property was occupied by a Dr. Joseph A. L. Johnston in 1945 and partially converted into a medical surgery. Dr. Johnston continued to practice from No. 1 Bayview Terrace until 1966 when the building was converted into a number of offices. By the end of the Second Revaluation (1956-72) the value of the building had been increased in value to £144. In 1978 the Department of the Environment designated Bayview Terrace (and the surrounding streets) a Conservation Area ‘being an area of special architectural or historic interest, the character of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance’ (Londonderry Clarendon Street Conservation Area Booklet). No. 1 Bayview Terrace was subsequently listed in 1979. The NIEA HB Records note that in 1992 a bomb exploded outside the building, shattering all its original windows and inflicted minor damage to its façade. No. 1 Bayview Terrace was subsequently restored in 1993 and has continued to be utilised as office premises (NIEA HB Records). References Primary Sources 1. PRONI OS/6/5/20/1 – First Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1830) 2. PRONI OS/6/5/20/2 – Second Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1853) 3. PRONI VAL/12/E/157/1/8 – Annual Revisions Town Plan (c. 1873-1910) 4. PRONI VAL/2/B/5/16G – Griffith’s Valuation (1856) 5. PRONI VAL/12/B/32/11DA-ZA – Annual Revisions (1862-1897) 6. PRONI VAL/12/B/33/2C-2F – Annual Revisions (1898-1931) 7. PRONI VAL/3/C/6/10 – First General Revaluation of Northern Ireland (1936-57) 8. PRONI VAL/4/B/5/13 – Second General Revaluation of Northern Ireland (1956-72) 9. Census of Ireland (1901 / 1911) 10. Ulster Town Directories (1861-1918) 11. First Survey Record – HB01/22/017 (1970) 12. First Survey Image – HB01/22/017 (No Date) 13. NIEA HB Records – HB01/22/017A Secondary Sources 1. Calley, D., ‘City of Derry: An historical gazetteer to the buildings of Londonderry’ Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2013. 2. Ferguson, W. S; Rowan, A. J; Tracey, J. J., ‘List of historic buildings, groups of buildings, areas of architectural importance in and near the city of Derry’ Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1970. 3. Rowan, A. J., ‘The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster’ London: Yale University Press, 2003. 4. ‘Londonderry Clarendon Street Conservation Area Booklet’ Department of the Environment, 1978. 5. ‘Design Guide for Clarendon Street Conservation Area’ Department of the Environment, 2012.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

A. Style B. Proportion C. Ornamentation H-. Alterations detracting from building J. Setting K. Group value

Historic Interest

R. Age S. Authenticity T. Historic Importance X. Local Interest

Evaluation

A Mid-Victorian end-of-terrace three-storey with attic rendered house built in 1870, one of a terrace of seven buildings of similar type and style lining the south side of Asylum Road (Nos 1-7 Bayview Terrace - HB01/22/017A-G). No. 1 is located on the corner of Asylum Road and Queen Street on the western side of the River Foyle, within the Clarendon Street Conservation Area. Although a number of windows are replacements following bomb damage in 1992, sufficient detailing to the exterior remains to regard it as special, including the timber panelled front door and bay window with a fretwork frieze entablature. It is a good example of a substantial terraced house that became one of the residences of Londonderry’s professional and merchant classes. The house has group value along with the rest of the houses in the terrace.

General Comments

Date of Survey

28 July 2014