8a, Monmouth Place

8A Monmouth Place is a house that was formerly the Royal Oak public house, built around 1770, with a lease dated November 16, 1774. The building has undergone some alterations in the 20th century. It is constructed of limestone ashlar and features a pantile roof. The property is narrow but deep, with frontages on both Monmouth Place and St Anne's Place, and has a trapezoidal plan with a high mansard roof that is warped to accommodate its lack of squareness.

The exterior is two storeys tall, with an attic and basement. The front facing Monmouth Place has two windows; the first floor features two six-over-six sash windows with a single two-light casement dormer above. The ground floor has 20th-century two-light casements flanking a central door with an architrave, all beneath a full-width fascia where the words "THE ROYAL OAK" can still be deciphered in paint. The ground floor windows and masonry are 20th-century inserts. There is a small cavetto cornice with a blocking course and parapet, along with high coped gables and a stack on the left.

The front facing St Anne's Place matches the other houses in the courtyard, featuring a wide paired twelve-pane sash dormer above a tripartite arrangement of eight-over-twelve-over-eight-pane sashes. The ground floor has a single large twelve-pane window in a splayed surround. To the left, there is a 20th-century door on two high steps, topped with a flat stone hood on brackets. The facade has a small cavetto cornice with a blocking course and parapet. The return to the left is in rubble, featuring two bull's eye windows on the first floor and two eight-pane windows on the ground floor. The interior has not been inspected.