Pembury House Little Pembury And Attached Area Railings

Pembury House, originally a villa built around 1831-1848, is now divided into two houses and has attached area railings. The architects were RW and CJ Jearrad. The villa is constructed of ashlar facing brick, with hipped slate roofs to the original sections and tall ashlar ridge and lateral stacks with cornices. It also features iron area railings.

The building is two storeys and a basement, with five first-floor windows arranged in a 2:1:2 composition, where the outer bays project forward. A four-window wing is set back to the left and a conservatory extends to the right. A first-floor band and a continuous moulded sill band run around the building, with wide eaves supported by brackets. The windows on the main range are set within tooled architraves, with ground-floor windows having cornices on consoles. The majority of the windows are 1/1 and 2/2 sliding sash windows, although basement windows have 3/6 sashes. A central flight of steps leads to a recessed four-panel door with a top light, flanked by Doric pilasters with a frieze and cornice. The wing to the left has 6/6 sashes, with 8/8 sashes to the basement, and a 20th-century entrance with a door. The right return, facing the garden, has a three-window first-floor arrangement, with a gabled section projecting forward to the right. Within a glazed conservatory located on the ground floor at the left, there is a tripartite window with 6/6 sashes between two 2/2 sashes, both with tooled architraves and cornices on consoles.

The interior of the building has not been inspected. The area railings consist of rods and are similar in design to those at Nouvelle, located on Lansdown Crescent. Pembury House was originally part of the Lansdowne Estate, a significant example of suburban town planning.