2 West End Park, Londonderry

Late-Victorian mid-terrace townhouse, built in 1896, comprising two bays across three storeys in Arts and Crafts style. The building is one of a terrace of twenty-two similar houses lining the west side of West End Park. It is rectangular on plan with a large projecting rear return.

The principal elevation faces east onto West End Park and is set behind a low rendered painted boundary wall. The exterior walls are of red brick laid in English Garden Wall Bond. The pitched natural slate roof, continuous with No. 3 West End Park, has modern roof lights and a large rendered chimney stack with eleven terracotta clay pots, shared with No. 1. Timber fascia and soffit with exposed rafter tails support half-round uPVC guttering discharging to a circular uPVC downpipe.

The east elevation features a two-storey canted bay window rising from ground to first floor level with square-headed windows. Above this, the second floor has a slightly cantilevered box pedimented window resting on the bay below, supported by large timber brackets to either side. The pediment has half-timber treatment with a plain wide painted timber fascia board and a coupled 6/2 timber sliding sash window. The second floor level incorporates half-timber treatment supported on small carved timber corbel brackets. The entrance doorway is square-headed, accessed by five steps, and contains an original pair of raised-and-fielded half-leaf full-height painted timber doors. Windows throughout the east elevation are timber sliding sashes: 1/2 sashes to the canted bay on ground and first floors, 1/2 sashes to the first floor window over the main entrance, and 4/4 horizontally hung timber sashes to the second floor. Painted rendered bands finish the window heads and surrounds to the canted bay windows, with a painted sill course to the first floor windows.

The north and south elevations are adjoined to neighbouring properties No. 1 and No. 3 West End Park. The west elevation to the rear is three storeys with a half-gable shared with No. 3, finished in smooth rendered and painted surface. A three-storey rear return steps down to a single-storey extension with a modern roof light to a lean-to slate roof. A small rendered painted chimney stack rises from the gable-end of the rear return below ridge level. Fenestration on the rear elevation is irregular, with 1/2 timber sliding sash windows to first and second floors and both timber sliding sashes and casement windows to the rear return. A rendered painted high boundary wall with coping stone and a vertically sheeted timber door leads to a rear passageway serving Eastway Gardens. The pitched natural slate roof carries black clay ridge tiles. A large redbrick shared chimney stack, centred on the ridge, has eleven terracotta clay pots. uPVC rainwater goods are used throughout, along with uPVC casements to the rear elevation.

The building is located on an elevated site within the terrace row, set back from the pavement behind small front gardens accessed by a flight of steps.