271 and 273 Humberston Road

Nos 271 and 273 Humberston Road is a pair of houses that were originally a single house built in the late 17th to early 18th century. There is a later rear outshut, and the building was subdivided in the 19th century, which included refronting the first floor and reroofing. Alterations were made to No 271 in 1987. The structure is made of red brick in Flemish bond and has a pantile roof. The plan consists of three rooms with a lobby entry to the left of the center and an inserted door to the right. The building is low with two storeys and two first-floor windows.

No 271, on the left, features a 20th-century part-glazed door in a heightened opening beneath a segmental arch, along with a pair of inserted 20th-century 12-pane sliding sashes with sills in widened openings beneath similar arches. No 273 has a plain inserted 19th-century door flanked by 12-pane sliding sashes, all beneath 19th-century segmental arches. There are small 4-pane first-floor sliding sashes on each side. The building has a 19th-century rebuilt corniced axial stack and a projecting end stack to the right. The gables show tumbled-in brickwork. The left return has single 20th-century 12-pane sliding sashes to each floor beneath segmental arches, while the right return has a 19th-century first-floor 12-pane sliding sash.

Inside, No 273 features boxed-in spine beams, a herringbone pattern brick floor, a boxed-in winding staircase, and a fielded-panelled corner cupboard in the central room. No 271 has spine beams, exposed joists, and a partly rebuilt inglenook fireplace. Recent alterations to No 271 revealed bread ovens in the rear angle of the fireplace, which are now hidden behind a brick wall. At the time of resurvey, No 273 was empty and unoccupied. In the yard of No 271, there is a moulded lead pump head inscribed with "W S" beneath a fleece and star, with a damaged date below of either 16-9 or 18-9.