"They stood side by side, looking across the road at the rows and rows of dilapidated brick houses, their windows dull and blind in the darkness."
—Description of Narcissa Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange looking at Spinner's End.
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INTRODUCTION:
Spinner's End is a street on which the childhood home of Severus Snape is located. It is stated to be one of several streets lined with deserted brick houses and broken streetlamps, near a dirty river and an abandoned mill with a tall chimney. It is located in Cokeworth.
ORIGIN OF NAME:
The Spinner in the street name likely refers to the involvement of the local inhabitants in textile production, most likely cotton or wool spinning. It might also allude to the spider-like facets of Severus Snape's character. The End has a morbid quality and could also hint at post-industrial decline.
LOCATION:
Spinner's End is located near the childhood home of the Evans family in Cokeworth, where Petunia Dursley and Lily Potter grew up, as revealed through Snape's memories to Harry Potter in 1998. While the Black sisters were there, Bellatrix deemed it a "muggle dunghill".
DESCRIPTION OF COKEWORTH:
Cokeworth is a large town located in England, in which the street of Spinner's End is located. It is a town with several streets of identical brick, terraced, houses. It is located near a dirty river, the bank of which is strewn with litter. There is a disused mill with a tall chimney in this town.
PERMANENT RESIDENTS:
Snape Family
Tobias Snape
Eileen Snape
Severus Snape
NOTES FROM THE ADMINS:
•Spinner's End was described as a poverty-stricken neighbourhood.
•Severus Snape grew up in the last house on Spinner's End with his witch mother, Eileen Snape (neé Prince), and his Muggle father, Tobias Snape. He presumably took over the house after his parents either died or moved away. He stayed there during the summers between school years at Hogwarts. It is likely that his salary as a Professor and Head of House enabled him to purchase another home, but he considered Hogwarts to be his true home, as did Voldemort and Harry Potter.
•During the 1996 summer, Peter Pettigrew was assigned here by Lord Voldemort to assist Snape, in which Snape took it as treating Pettigrew as a butler, having him clean the house and serve food to guests.
•It is possible that Snape returned to the house every summer because of his memories of living near Lily.
•In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Snape's house does not have the hidden doors behind bookshelves, but instead the door to Pettigrew's room is a small door, while there's an open doorway to the kitchen.
•The house was probably abandoned after Snape's death in the Second Wizarding War.