Nos 2-8 Including Walls, Piers And Railings Fronting Road

This is a terrace of four houses, now divided into flats, built around 1875. Some alterations were made in the 20th century, particularly to the attic storey. The houses are constructed with a rendered brick facade, and the roof is concealed behind a parapet with tall rendered stacks topped with moulded caps. The terrace abuts 1-3 Albemarle Mansions to the north and has a rear elevation facing the sea.

The houses are four storeys high with a basement and feature four-window units. Each unit has a full-height canted bay window, with a main entrance on the right side. Windows are sash windows, with no glazing bars except on the third floor, where there's a single vertical bar in the central window of each canted bay. A parapet with linked circular piercings tops the building, along with a moulded cornice. The third floor has cambered heads, moulded architraves, and pediments above the central window of the canted bay and the window above the entrance. A continuous cast-iron balcony runs along the first floor. The ground floor windows have cambered heads, keystones, and a continuous moulded cill supported on brackets, with some original cast-iron window box guards remaining. Recessed entrances have rusticated surrounds, cambered heads, panelled doors with fanlights and sidelights, and are accessed by a flight of seven steps.

The solid boundary walls have a moulded coping and return to piers. The left return of No. 8, facing the sea, features a first-floor canopy with wooden trelliswork forming a three-bay loggia, now partly glazed, which abuts the full-height canted bay. A ground-floor oriel window is centrally located, with windows adjoining the main elevation. The walls fronting the road have piers with shallow pyramid caps and a balustrade with a moulded coping of interlocking circles on a plinth; this design is similar to that of 1-3 Albemarle Mansions.

No. 8 was occupied by Captain and Mrs. O'Shea from 1883 to 1899. In 1890, the building’s fire escape arrangements became a subject of public interest due to a divorce action brought by Captain O'Shea, with Charles Stewart Parnell, the Irish nationalist politician, cited as a co-respondent. The walls incorporate mixed railings and balustrades.