Lombard House Including 2B Trebeck Street

Lombard House, including 2B Trebeck Street, is a detached town mansion built in 1901 by Romaine-Walker and Besant for the Duke of Marlborough. The building is constructed of Portland ashlar with a slate roof, and is designed in a bold, free classical style incorporating Baroque and Beaux Arts details. It is four storeys high, with a basement and dormered mansard roof. The façade is five windows wide. The ground floor is deeply channelled, with a corniced architrave doorway on the left, balanced by a similarly framed window on the right. Between these, segmental arched windows are set with mask keystones. Massive console brackets on the outer bays support a stone balustrade to the first floor. Ionic columns flank the end bays, with pilasters between, articulating the first and second floors, with architrave framed segmental arched windows, and support a dentilled entablature, with broken segmental pediments over the end bays. Mask keystones with flanking swags decorate the centre and end windows of the attic storey. A stone balustrade tops the roof, with mid-20th century dormers. A similar giant order is present on the side elevations. The interior was altered for office use in the mid-20th century, with metal casements brought forward within reveals and a mezzanine inserted.