279, Hertingfordbury Road

Two houses, originally a beer house and now a single disused property, were built in the early 19th century. The building is timber-framed with plastered walls, and a masonry lining on the ground floor, with a section of weatherboarding. It has a Welsh slate roof and brick chimneys. The plan is long and one room deep.

The exterior is two storeys high. The first floor has three two-light wood casement windows with small panes, with projecting frames; two on the left have moulded weatherboard heads. On the ground floor, two casement windows are recessed beneath a jettied overhang with a moulded bressumer carried on gallows brackets. A six-panel door is within a moulded architrave, alongside a two-light casement window. Weatherboarding extends from sill level and across the front of an attached outbuilding to the right. The rear elevation is also weatherboarded.

The interior retains exposed lightweight timber studding and a roof of lightweight rafters, some of which are thin timbers still bearing bark. This simple, unaltered vernacular building was constructed towards the very end of the timber-framed building era and is included on the heritage list also for its contribution to the wider group value of the area.