No. 1 And Attached Wall And Railings

House, now flats, dating from around 1770, developed by Thomas Omer. The building is constructed in limestone ashlar to the front and left side (painted at ground floor level), with rubble to the basement. The rear is a mixture of ashlar and rubble. It has a double pile parapeted roof with Welsh slate to front and rear, a coped gable wall to the left with an ashlar stack to the rear roof, and to the right a wall with two ashlar stacks shared with No. 2 Vineyards.

The house occupies a corner position at the junction of Vineyards and Hay Hill. It presents three storeys and a basement, with the front facing Vineyards and the entrance front facing Hay Hill at an angle, as the building widens towards the rear. The front has two windows. The first floor features a tripartite window with plate glass horned sashes in plain reveals with splayed jambs and a continuous stone sill; a wrought iron balconette is fitted below. The second floor has two plate glass horned sashes in plain reveals with splayed jambs and stone sills. The ground floor has two similar sashes with lowered stone sills and wrought iron balconettes. The basement contains a six-over-six sash in plain reveal and a panelled door, with twentieth-century area steps. A band course runs over the ground floor with an incised street name 'VINEYARDS' to the left, continuing with No. 2 Vineyards. A moulded eaves cornice and coped parapet run continuously with Nos 2 to 6 Vineyards. A lead hopperhead and downpipe are positioned to the left.

The left side has two doors: to the right a twentieth-century door in plain reveal with a moulded hood on console brackets; to the left a six-panel door with flush beaded, fielded and glazed panels and a cast iron lion's mask knocker, set in a stone doorcase with moulded architrave in a flat surround with console brackets to a moulded cornice. A plate glass sash is fitted at ground floor level, with a six-over-six sash to the first floor. The horizontal design elements from the front elevation continue across this elevation. The rear elevation, which is partially visible, features glazing bar sashes.

Subsidiary features include wrought iron railings and a gate with shaped heads on painted limestone bases, attached to the front and left side. To the rear is a length of coped ashlar wall approximately 2 metres high with a four-panel door in plain reveal and a length of wrought iron railing with arrow heads, with the bottom rail fixed on rings.

The ground on which the house stands was formerly the property of the Hayne family from 1638, when Thomas Hayne purchased it from William Snygge. The property passed by inheritance to Charles Hayne in 1750. By 1756, plans to sell Vineyards to Thomas Omer for building had reached an advanced stage, though these were not finally realised until an indenture of 26 February 1765, in which Charles Hayne sold the site of Vineyards to Thomas Omer, Gentleman, and Thomas Jelly, Carpenter (as trustee), for building at a yearly rent of £50. Belmont was subsequently constructed on the west edge of the same ground. The Vineyards had previously been used as a vineyard until around 1730, when the springs which watered it began to fail. The row to the north of the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel was originally called Harlequin Row because of its unusual use of brick and stone in construction.

The building has undergone twentieth-century alterations.