1-6, Maltings Mews

1-6 Maltings Mews is a former maltings building that has been converted into housing. It dates from the early 19th century and was enlarged in 1855, with further conversion and extension around 1974 by architect John Snellgrove. The structure is made of yellow-brown stock brick laid in Flemish bond, with white-painted and black-stained weatherboarding on the return at the north end of the block. It features hipped roofs with old tiles, while the north-east corner has a Welsh slated end that incorporates a conical kiln roof topped with a mortarboard cowl.

The exterior is two storeys high and consists of eight bays divided by shallow projecting buttresses. During its conversion, the building was refenestrated with multiple wooden sashes that include glazing bars. The first-floor windows project as box dormers above the eaves line on the main north-south block. There are glazed doors in the west wall, and the projecting wing on the left (west) and the end of the kiln house feature 20th-century sash windows on both the ground and first floors.

Historically, this maltings was in operation by 1830, as shown on Turnor's Map of Hertford, but it was not present in Pigot's Directory of 1823-4. In 1855, the Nicholls family opened a brewery on the adjoining site to the east, behind No. 6 West Street, which likely coincided with the enlargement of the Maltings.