Number 8 And Attached Railings

Number 8, along with its attached railings, is a villa dating to approximately 1825-1830, with later alterations including a 20th-century lean-to and garage on the right side. The villa was constructed by William Buddle, Sr and Jr, who were also responsible for numbers 19 and 21 Beauchamp Hill. It is built of brick with painted stucco facades, covered by a Welsh slate roof. Cast-iron railings are attached to the property.

The street facade is two storeys high with a basement and attic to the gable, featuring two first-floor windows. A projecting single-storey porch extends from the left side. The entrance to the porch has a four-panel door with pilaster strips, sidelights featuring glazing bars, and a plain entablature with triglyphs and metopes. The ground floor has three windows with single panes and margin lights, while the first floor has two windows with six-over-six sashes and margin lights. A casement window is located in the gable. All windows have moulded surrounds, plain reveals and sills. A basement entrance is centrally positioned with a six-panel door. Basement windows have four-over-eight and three-over-three sashes in plain reveals. The garden facade, also two storeys high with a basement and attic, features two full-height bows providing four first-floor windows. The garden facade has two-over-two sashes with margin lights to the first floor, a frieze, cornice, blocking course, and a low parapet, and incorporates roof dormers. The roof is hipped to the garden front.

The interior features a hall with double-panelled doors, the upper panels glazed with etched glass, pilaster strips, sidelights, and a fanlight with glazing bars. The property includes lancet-style railings as a subsidiary feature.

Originally conceived as Bertie Circus, the houses were designed to face inwards, with the garden facades serving as the primary fronts. A 1852 map from the Board of Health indicates that numbers 15 and 17 Beauchamp Hill were also part of that architectural scheme. The area was initially known as Back Lane, but was renamed Clarendon Crescent by 1838, after an initial scheme for a circus had been abandoned. The original design for numbers 1-9, and numbers 15 and 17 Beauchamp Hill, which included a series of full-height bows, is best viewed from the rear (or garden) facade.