Staff College House And Attached Basement Railing, Staff College Camberley

Staff College House and the attached basement railing, located at the Staff College in Camberley, are a pair of semi-detached officers' houses that have been combined into one residence. They were built in the 1860s, likely designed by James Pennethorne, the Government Architect. The houses are constructed of yellow brick with lighter brick and stone details, featuring brick lateral and ridge stacks, and a hipped slate roof. The building has a double-depth plan.

The exterior consists of two storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a three-window range on the garden front. Originally, there were two entrance fronts; the garden front has a right-hand section that is set forward, with quoin strips, brick bands above the cills and heads, and corbelled brick brackets supporting the eaves cornice. The entrance porch, located to the left of the centre, has pilasters framing a moulded round arch, a balustrade above for the first-floor balcony, and double six-panel doors. The right-hand ground-floor features tripartite windows with bracketed cornices above, including a central French window, while the left-hand windows have architraves. The first-floor windows have rubbed brick heads and consist of six-over-six pane hornless sashes. There are three gabled half dormers with barge boards and segmental-arched heads to two-over-two pane sashes.

On the right-hand return road front, there is a two-window section divided by a lateral stack, and a recessed section with the entrance porch mirroring that of the garden front. The left-hand return features a four-window range, with two blind windows on the right and a central lateral stack, along with a single left-hand dormer.

The interior has not been inspected but is reported to include entrance stair halls with iron balusters leading to the stairs. Additionally, there are attached cast-iron rails with moulded, capped posts that enclose the basement area on the left-hand end.

Historically, this building may have been constructed by Pennethorne at the same time as his design for the Staff College, sharing materials and some architectural details, and it is included as part of a group with that structure.