6 West End Park, Londonderry

A late-Victorian mid-terrace townhouse of two bays and three storeys, built in 1896 in the Arts and Crafts style. The building forms part of a terrace of twenty-two similar houses lining the west side of West End Park, set on an elevated site and positioned back from the pavement behind a low rendered painted boundary wall.

The principal east elevation faces onto West End Park and is constructed of red brick in English Garden Wall Bond. The ground and first floors feature a square-headed canted bay window rising from ground to first floor level, with rendered painted bands to the window heads. The second floor contains a cantilevered box pedimented window with a half-hipped roof, supported by large timber brackets to either side. The pediment is finished with half-timber treatment and a wide plain painted timber fascia board, housing a coupled half-timber casement window. The second floor level is also finished with half-timber treatment, supported on small carved timber corbel brackets. All windows are timber casements in a half-style, with the entrance doorway containing an original raised-and-fielded three-panel pair of half-leaf full-height painted timber doors positioned one step up from the pavement.

The pitched roof is covered in natural slate to the front slope and artificial replacement slate to the rear slope. The large rendered chimney stack, shared with the adjoining property, contains eleven terracotta or buff clay pots. Timber fascia and soffit with exposed rafter tails are features of the eaves; half-round uPVC guttering discharges via a circular uPVC downpipe to the front elevation. The roof is continuous with the neighbouring property and includes modern roof lights.

The north and south sides are adjoined to the neighbouring properties. The west elevation to the rear is three storeys high with a smooth rendered unpainted finish and a three-storey rear return built at half-landing height. A small rendered chimney stack with two buff clay pots rises from the shared gable-end of the rear return. Timber casement windows serve the rear elevation and return. A vertically sheeted timber door in the rear boundary wall opens onto a rear passageway leading to Eastway Gardens. The rear roof is covered in pitched replacement fibre cement slate with black clay ridge tiles, with a large shared red-brick chimney stack on the north side containing terracotta and buff clay pots. uPVC rainwater goods are used throughout.