13, 15 AND 17, WEST END ROAD

Nos. 13, 15, and 17 on West End Road are a row of three dwellings dating from the 17th century, which have been significantly remodeled. The buildings are constructed of cob with a stone plinth and are plastered, topped with a gabled-end slate roof. Originally, they formed a single house with a three-room, through-passage plan, with the lower end now represented by No. 17, which faces away from West End Road. The passage now serves as a common access to the separate houses. The lower roof ridge line of No. 13, which was formerly the inner room, may indicate the original height of the old house. There are two end stacks: one for No. 15, located in the gable wall above the apex of the roof of No. 13, serving both houses, and a front lateral stack for No. 15 (the Hall). All three dwellings are two storeys high.

The front of No. 13 features two large 19th or 20th century two-light casement windows on the first floor, with a wide doorway below and another two-light casement window to the left. A 19th century brick shed with a slate roof is now attached to the house. No. 15 has two similar windows above and one on either side of the door. No. 17 is treated in a similar manner, except that the right-hand ground-floor window has three lights, with 15 leaded panes per light.

At the rear, the fenestration is scattered. No. 13 has a two-light dormer, a two-light first-floor casement window with nine leaded panes per light, and three 19th century windows of one and two lights of varying sizes on the ground floor. Nos. 15 and 17 together have five first-floor windows at different levels, including two two-light casement windows with leaded panes—one with nine panes and the other with twelve panes per light. There are also two ground-floor sash windows (one with four panes in the upper sash and eight in the lower) and a three-light casement window with 20th century latticed leading.

Inside No. 13, the left-hand ground-floor room features two cross beams with step hollows and scroll stops, and a fireplace with a timber lintel and crude step stops. A large truss is visible, with trenched purlins and what may be the lower part of a saddle (the apex is concealed). In No. 17, there is a beam with a step stop and a doorway into the through-passage with a stopped chamfered surround.