2 The West End

1-7 The West End A terrace of 3-storey houses, of painted pebble-dashed walls, except Nos 1 which has a painted brick front; No 2 has recently cleaned chequerboard brickwork and limestone dressings. Slate roof with roughcast stacks, except for a brick stack at the L end. Nos 1-6 are 3 reflected pairs of 2-bay houses. Round-headed entrances are in the inner bays and have overlights. No 1 has a panelled door, No 2 a modern replacement door, Nos 3 and 4 panelled doors. Nos 1-4 have moulded imposts and keystones. No 5 has a panelled door, No 6 a replacement door, both in surrounds with pilasters, arches with faceted keystones, and cornice above. Outer bays have 2-storey canted bay windows. All windows are 4-pane sashes, except for replacement windows to No 2, with middle storey sill band. Nos 3-6 have plain rendered architraves. Between Nos 4 and 5 is a tablet with raised letters and numerals reading 'The West End 1869'.

No 7, at the R end, is a 3-bay house, of which the centre and L-hand bays are set back under projecting eaves. Its narrower central bay has a replacement panel door with round-headed overlight and in a moulded architrave with keystone. The R-hand has a 2-storey canted bay window. The L-hand has tripartite sash windows in architraves, and with keystone in the middle storey. The upper storey also has keyed architraves and all windows are 4-pane sashes. The R gable end has 4-pane sash windows to the L side in lower and middle storeys, inserted window on the R side in the lower storey, next to a 1-storey lean-to.

No 1 has small-pane sash windows in its L gable end. The rear is rubble stone, partly rendered, and each pair of houses has a lower 2-storey gabled wing. Windows are mainly small-pane sashes. A vertical joint is between Nos 6 and 7. No 7 has replacement windows.

The facade of No 2 has recently exposed chequerboard brickwork, modern sashes, limestone dressings including sill band, lintels and keystones to arched doorway. (March 2005)

Not inspected.