4 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 projecting rear return. Principal elevation faces East onto West End Park, set back from the edge of the pavement with no boundary wall. Built 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.5 West End Park with a modern roof lights and a large rendered chimney stack with eleven terracotta or buff clay pots shared with No.3 (HB01/20/002C). Timber fascia and soffit with exposed rafter tails; moulded uPVC guttering discharging to a square 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 wide 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.5. Square-headed opening to entrance doorway, two 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. Timber casement window 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. 3 & 5 West End Park (HB01/20/002C & HB01/20/002E). West elevation to the rear is of three-storeys redbrick finish with a three-storey rear return built at half-landing height; small red brick chimney stack rising from the shared gable-end of rear return centred on ridge. The fenestration pattern is irregular with replacement timber casement windows on rear elevation and rear return. Red brick with painted rendered finish to high boundary wall with a vertically sheeted timber door opening out on rear passageway leading to Eastway Gardens. Pitched natural slate roof with black clay ridge tiles to the main roof and rear return. Large redbrick shared chimney stack rising from the North side, centred on ridge with terracotta and buff clay pots. uPVC rainwater goods throughout. Materials: Roof Natural Slate RWG uPVC Walling Brick Windows Timber Sliding Sash (E) and Timber casements (W) Setting: Located on the west side of West End Park on an elevated site, set within a terrace row of twenty-two houses of similar type, set back from the pavement.