No. 8 and Attached Railings

This is a house, dating to circa 1770, with alterations made in the 19th century. It was developed by Thomas Omer and stands on land formerly belonging to the Hayne family from 1638. By 1765, Charles Hayne sold the site to Thomas Omer and Thomas Jelly for building, and the area had previously been a vineyard until around 1730 when its water sources dried up.

The house is constructed of limestone ashlar to the front, painted on the ground floor, with rubble to the basement. It has a double-pile, parapeted roof. The front has a two-window facade and four storeys over a basement. The first and second floors each have two six/six sash windows set in splayed reveals with stone sills. The third floor has a two/two and a six/six sash window in similar reveals. The ground floor has a plate glass sash window to the right and a six-panel door to the left, featuring a flush beaded, fielded, single-glazed panel within a chamfered and ovolo moulded stone surround with a moulded hood on shaped brackets, and one step leading to a Pennant paved crossover. The basement has three three-pane fixed lights in narrow beaded openings. There is a band course above the ground floor, a moulded former eaves cornice above the second floor, a moulded eaves cornice, and a coped parapet. The rear elevation is not visible. The interior was not inspected.

Attached to the front are wrought iron railings with shaped heads on limestone and cement-coated bases. The property's setting includes coped party walls to the left and right, with two ashlar stacks incorporating some early clay pots projecting from the front roofline; no stacks are visible to the rear. There is a reference to a row north of the Countess of Huntingdon’s Chapel, which was formerly called Harlequin Row due to its unusual use of brick and stone.