15 Vineyards and attached railings

House, now converted to flats. Built circa 1765–1775 with a mid-19th-century extension to the rear. Developed by Thomas Omer on land formerly owned by the Hayne family. The building is rendered with ashlar dressings to the front elevation, render and ashlar to the rear, with a double pile roof parapeted to the front. Welsh slate covers the front roof pitch, artificial slate the rear. Coped party walls run to left and right, with two ashlar chimney stacks to the front shared with No.16 Vineyards. A staircase is positioned to the rear.

The front elevation displays three storeys, an attic and basement, arranged over a two-window width. The first floor contains two two-over-two sash windows set in ovolo moulded architraves interrupted by rustic blocks with projecting keystones and stone sills fitted with wrought iron balconettes. The second floor features a Venetian window arrangement with six-pane fixed lights flanking a three-over-six sash topped by a fan-glazed head. This is framed by pilaster strips leading to a moulded impost, with an ovolo moulded archivolt featuring projecting keystones and a continuous stone sill on consoles. The ground floor has two six-over-six sashes to the right in surrounds similar to the first floor but without balconettes, and to the left a six-panel door with flush beaded, fielded and glazed panels set in a Pennant stone doorcase shared with No.14 Vineyards. The doorcase features a 19th-century timber architrave and floating cornice. Access is via one step to a Pennant paved crossover, which also features a wrought iron footscraper shared with No.14 Vineyards. The basement contains two four-over-four sashes in splayed reveals, together with a 20th-century half-glazed door and window infilling beneath the crossover. Double dormers with plate glass sashes break the roof line. Band courses mark the positions over the ground and first floors, rusticated quoins articulate the left and right angles, and a bracketed eaves cornice supports a coped parapet continuous with No.14 Vineyards.

The rear elevation displays a mid-19th-century full-height extension topped by a pyramidal roof with pairs of round-headed windows to the second and third floors. Further ashlar extensions are present at ground floor and basement levels, with 19th and 20th-century windows throughout.

The interior was not inspected at the time of listing.

Attached wrought iron railings with shaped heads rest on limestone bases.

The land passed through the Hayne family from 1638 when Thomas Hayne purchased it from William Snygge. Charles Hayne inherited the property in 1750 and cleared it of mortgage and other encumbrances. In 1755, an indenture of 26 February transferred the Vineyards to Thomas Omer, Gentleman, and Thomas Jelly, Carpenter (his trustee), for building purposes at a yearly rent of £50. Belmont was subsequently constructed on the western edge of the same ground. The plot has retained the name 'Vineyards' (or archaic variants) throughout its documented history, though the date when cultivation of vines ceased remains uncertain. The row to the north of Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel was originally called Harlequin Row due to its distinctive use of brick and stone in its construction.