239,241,243, HERTINGFORDBURY ROAD

This is a group of three terraced houses dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, with 20th-century alterations and extensions. The houses are constructed with a variety of materials: No. 239 is timber-framed with colourwashed brick, No. 241 has a colourwashed pebbledashed exterior, and No. 243 is red brick in a header bond pattern. They have old tiled roofs, with No. 243 featuring a hipped end and a red brick gabled extension added in 1985. The house has red brick chimneystacks, one with grouped flues at No. 243.

The main elevation faces Hertingfordbury Road and has three bays. The first floor has a 2-light cast-iron lattice casement at the left of No. 239, and a 2-light wooden casement at the right of No. 243. Ground floor windows are similarly styled, with segmental arched heads. No. 239 has a battened door with a flat hood supported on cut brackets, while No. 241 has a battened door beneath a porch with an old tiled lean-to roof.

The principal elevation of No. 243 faces south and has 3-light casements on both the first and ground floors. The ground floor has plain glazing, and a central 20th-century glazed door replaces a previously recorded 6-panel door. This door is set within a wood-lined reveal with a cornice hood on profiled cut brackets, and is supported by a 20th-century iron bracket on the left. A projecting gabled wing was constructed in 1985 to the right.

Internally, No. 243 features chamfered beams with run-out stops on the ground floor, 2-panel doors with HL hinges on either side of the chimney, and exposed beams with carpenters' marks. The roof has rafters, largely renewed, but with some pegged remnants. A shared outshut with No. 239 has a large, recessed sash window from the early 18th century, set in an English bond red brick wall.