The Elms, With Associated Front Garden Wall

SD4108SE 663-1/8/150

ORMSKIRK DERBY STREET (North side) No.5 The Elms, with associated front garden wall

GV II

House, now surgery. Mid C19; altered, and renovation in progress at time of survey. Red brick in Flemish bond with some sandstone dressings and hipped roof. L-plan, with short projecting wing to left. Two storeys, 1:2 windows. The main range has a round-headed doorway in the angle (left side of arch dying into side of wing), with gauged brick head and keystone, and a recessed porch with moulded wooden doorcase; a small round-headed window above the doorway, a large tripartite window to the right (a formerly iron verandah protecting this now missing, and a flat-arched brick head under construction at time of survey), and above this a top-hung casement imitating a 4-pane sash, with a flat-arched head and keystone. The gable of the wing has a similar window at 1st floor, a canted bay window at ground floor, and a pedimented gable. Front garden wall of coursed squared sandstone with rounded coping, approx. one-and-a-half metres high, and with a concave curve to gate piers at the right-hand end. Forms group with No.5A to the right (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD4155808387