No.8 And Atached Railings And Vaults

No. 8 and attached railings and vaults is a house, dating to approximately 1775, and subsequently altered in the 20th century. It was likely designed by Thomas Warr Atwood, who certainly developed the property. The front of the house is limestone ashlar, painted at basement level, while the rear is not visible. It has a double-pile, parapeted mansard roof covered with Welsh slate to the front and not visible to the rear, with two ashlar chimney stacks rising from a coped party wall to the left and one rebuilt stack to the front. The front features a staircase.

The house is three storeys high, with an attic and basement, and has a three-window front. The first floor has three plate glass sash windows with horns, set within ovolo moulded architraves which include friezes and cornices rising from lowered stone sills. The second floor has similar plate glass sash windows with horns, set within ovolo moulded architraves directly above stone sills. On the ground floor, to the left are two plate glass sash windows with horns in splayed reveals with stone sills, and to the right, a six-panel door with a flush beaded fielded panel and a single glazed panel within a stone doorcase with a cyma moulded architrave, flat surround and moulded brackets to a moulded cornice. There is one step leading to a pennant paved crossover with a cast iron footscraper. The basement has two six-over-six sash windows in plain reveals and stone sills, and a plank door with a three-pane overlight in an ashlar infilling under the crossover, with 20th-century area steps. A single double dormer window with plate glass horned sashes is also present. Architectural details include a band course over the ground floor, a modillion eaves cornice, and a coped parapet. The rear elevation, partially visible, has plate glass sash windows to the second floor and two single and two double dormers with 20th-century sash windows.

The interior was not inspected.

Attached to the property are wrought iron railings and a gate with shaped heads on limestone bases.

The houses were developed on Council land by Thomas Warr Atwood, who obtained the ground in 1773. They represent standard Palladian designs of the 1770s and may have been the work of Atwood, John Wood the Younger, or Thomas Jelly, but the strongest evidence points to Atwood. The architectural style is considered a competent, conservative example of the English Palladian tradition.