3 West End Park, Londonderry

Late-Victorian mid-terrace two-bay three-storey brick, Arts and Crafts style townhouse. Built 1896. Rectangular on plan with a large projecting rear return. Principal elevation faces East onto West End Park, set behind low rendered painted boundary wall with painted metal railings above. Built as part of a terrace row of twenty-two similar houses of this type lining the west side of West End Park. Pitched natural slate roof continuous with No.2 West End Park with a modern roof lights and a large red brick chimney stack with eleven terracotta clay pots shared with No.4 (HB01.20.002D). Timber fascia and soffit with exposed rafter tails; half round uPVC guttering discharging to circular uPVC downpipe. East elevation is of red brick 'English Garden Wall Bond'; windows are square-headed with a two storey canted bay window rising from the ground to first floor level. The second floor has a slight cantilevered box pedimented window resting on the canted bay below, supported by large timber brackets to either side. Pediment has half-timber treatment with plain painted timber fascia board finish and a coupled 6/2 timber sliding sash window. Second floor level has half-timber treatment supported on small carved timber corbel brackets continuous with No.2. Square-headed opening to entrance doorway, four steps up and contains an original raised-and-fielded pair of half-leaf full-height painted timber doors. All windows are timber sliding sashes, 1/2 sliding sashes to canted bay on ground and first floors and the same type to first floor window over the main entrance door. 4/4 horizontally hung timber sliding sash on second floor level. Painted rendered band to ground and first floor window heads and painted rendered surround to canted bay windows, painted sill course to first windows. North and south sides are adjoined to neighbouring properties No. 2 & 4 West End Park (HB01/20/002B & HB01/20/00D). West elevation to the rear is of three-storeys, 'half gable shared with No. 2, red brick with a three-storey red brick rear return stepping down to a single storey extension with a corrugated steel flat roof extending to boundary wall with opening out onto rear passageway leading to Eastway gardens. The fenestration pattern is irregular; all windows are uPVC casements to rear elevation and rear return. Pitched natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles to the main roof and rear return. Large red brick shared chimney stack rising from the South side, centred on ridge with eleven terracotta clay pots. uPVC rainwater goods throughout. Materials: Roof Natural Slate RWG uPVC Walling Brick Windows Timber Sliding Sash (E) and uPVC Casements (W) Setting: Located on the west side of West End Park on an elevated site, set within a terrace row of twenty-two townhouses of similar type set back from the pavement behind low rendered painted boundary walls with small gardens, front entrance reached via a flight of steps.