Pembury House Little Pembury and Attached Area Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1955. Villa. 3 related planning applications.
Pembury House Little Pembury and Attached Area Railings
- WRENN ID
- sharp-arch-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheltenham
- Constituency
- Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1955
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Pembury House Little Pembury and Attached Area Railings, Lansdown Crescent
- OS grid reference
- SO 942 218
- Coordinates
- 51.89545, -2.08497
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Pembury House Little Pembury and Attached Area Railings receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 24 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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