The Hanley Arms Public House

The Hanley Arms public house is a mid-19th century building with a ground-floor frontage dating from around 1900. It is constructed of brick with a stucco finish, while the ground-floor front features grey and pink polished granite. The building has three storeys above a basement and presents a four-window range to Hornsey Road. The ground-floor frontage slightly projects, with a base of grey polished granite and three entrances on Hornsey Road, which are flanked by pilasters and columns made of pink granite on grey granite bases. These columns support a fascia and cornice, with a segmental pediment over the central entrance. The central and corner entrances have small pedimented cornices, and the Saloon Bar and corner entrances feature elaborate wrought iron grilles screening their upper parts. The two windows facing Hornsey Road are flattened bows with original glazing bars but lack engraved or decorated glass. There is also elaborate wrought-iron cresting along the cornice.

On the first floor, the windows are round-arched with moulded stucco architraves and keystones. The second-floor windows are segmental-arched, also with moulded stucco architraves, and there is a sill band beneath them. The facade features chamfered quoins at either end, a moulded stucco cornice (now simplified on Hornsey Road), and a parapet with stacks set behind it.

Inside, the original plan has lost its subdivisions, but the columns supporting the front wall remain, along with a large portion of the embossed ceiling. A notable feature is a good chimneypiece, likely from the former saloon, which includes a pedimented overmantel framing engraved, gilded, and faceted mirror-glass, along with a series of five pedimented panels of similar mirror-glass, four located on the south wall and one positioned elsewhere.