In this area was one of the earliest coal-fired glass houses, which was associated with the near-by Winchester House. There appear to have been several glass houses here towards the end of the century. One, the Bear garden was owned by John Bowles and William Lillington in 1678 and later by Bowles alone (probably by 1684 when an agreement described him as: Master of several glasshouses at St Mary Overye's and the Bear Garden in Southwark for making Green glass. Another used what had been the brewhouse for Winchester House. Samuel Hutchinson, a glass maker, occupied one of the Stony Street glass houses in 1688 and this was taken over in 1699 by Hutchinson's former associate Francis Jackson who owned a number of the Falcon glass houses at the western end of Southwark. A number of members of the Jackson family are recorded in the registers of near-by St Olave's church, from 1643, suggesting a long association of the family with these glass houses. In 1717 the Stony Street glass houses consisted of two building known as the "Flint Glass House" and the "Little Glass House". An Edward Racket married in the nearby church in December 1656. The Rackets were a well-known glass making family and were probably working here. Members of the Holmes family are also recorded as fathers in St Olave's church records, including William(s) in 1626 &1655, Richard 1642-1655, Thomas 1652-1657, John (& Mary) 1688-1691, (& Sarah) 1690-1693, (& Jane) 1699, and Daniel 1703. Thomas Holmes was prosecuted by the Glass Sellers' Company for selling glasses at the White Lion by Guildhall on 22nd April 1670.
The Stony Street glass houses are shown ringed on this early eighteenth century map.