5 West End Park, Londonderry

A late-Victorian mid-terrace townhouse built in 1896, displaying Arts and Crafts style characteristics. The building forms part of a continuous terrace of twenty-two similar houses lining the west side of West End Park on an elevated site.

The house is a two-bay, three-storey structure built of red brick in English Garden Wall Bond. It is rectangular on plan with a projecting rear return. The principal elevation faces east onto West End Park and is set back from the pavement edge by a low rendered and painted boundary wall.

The principal east elevation features a distinctive two-storey canted bay window rising from ground to first floor level, with rendered and painted band details to window heads and sill courses. Above this, the second floor contains a cantilevered box pedimented window under a half-hipped roof shared with the neighbouring property No.6. This pediment is treated with half-timber framing and has a plain wide painted timber fascia board. The window beneath comprises a coupled 6/2 timber sliding sash. The second floor half-timber treatment is supported on small carved timber corbel brackets, continuous with No.4. The entrance doorway is square-headed, one step up from the pavement, and contains an original raised-and-fielded three-panel pair of half-leaf full-height painted timber doors.

Windows throughout are timber sliding sashes: the canted bays on ground and first floors are fitted with 1/2 sliding sashes, as is the first floor window above the main entrance. The second floor features a 1/1 horizontally hung timber sliding sash window. The roof is pitched with natural slate, continuous with No.4 West End Park, and features modern roof lights. A large rendered chimney stack with eleven terracotta and buff clay pots is shared with No.6. Timber fascia and soffit with exposed rafter tails are present, with moulded guttering discharging to a cast-iron downpipe.

The north and south elevations are adjoined to neighbouring properties No.4 and No.6 West End Park respectively. The west elevation is three storeys of red brick with a three-storey rear return constructed at half-landing height. A small red brick chimney stack rises from the shared gable-end of the rear return, centred on the ridge. The rear elevation contains 6/3 timber sliding sash windows to the second floor and first floor of the rear return. A large shared redbrick chimney stack to the main roof, rising from the south side and centred on the ridge, contains terracotta and buff clay pots. The roof is finished in pitched natural slate with black clay ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods.

A detached red brick outbuilding abuts the rear boundary wall, featuring a corrugated steel pitched roof and a large up-and-over garage door facing onto the rear passageway, with a vertically sheeted timber door to its right.

The property is set within its terrace row, positioned back from the pavement with a low rendered and painted boundary wall featuring coping stone at the canted bay window and to the right side of the entrance doorway between the two properties.