Pembroke House Hotel including area railings

The Pembroke House Hotel, originally three terraced houses, dates from the 18th century. The facades are of painted stucco, topped by slate mansard roofs concealed behind battlemented parapets, with a rendered brick stack at the right end of each house. Each house is two bays wide, with the right bay of each set back within a large, square-headed recess that extends upwards from ground floor sill level. Attic windows are hidden behind the parapets.

The original windows were small-paned, hornless sashes with margin lights and slate sills. The first house features a fine flight of stone steps with scrolled cast-iron uprights to the side rail, leading to an original two-panel door, one panel glazed, beneath a radiating-bar fanlight. A narrow sash window is above the doorway on the first floor, while a wider sash sits above a tripartite sash on the right. A cambered headed basement window is below. The ground floor’s large window has been replaced with a triple plate glass sash, and the upper windows now have false glazing bars. A 20th-century basement opening was boarded over in 2005.

The second house has had its doorway and steps removed and the entry stuccoed over. It retains a 12-pane horned sash window in the basement. The ground floor’s large window has been replaced with a triple plate glass sash, and the upper windows have false glazing bars. The third house retains an original small-paned tripartite sash window on the ground floor, though the upper windows have been shortened. Six stone steps lead to an original two-panel door with a radiating-bar fanlight. Plain iron railings remain to the steps, with scrolls at the sides of the platform. A basement window has been replaced with a door. To the right of the steps are spearhead iron railings, similar to those found at numbers 5, 8-8A, and 9, set upon low stone copings.

The rear of the building has large 20th-century additions constructed of red brick with flat roofs, behind the first two houses, and stuccoed behind the third.

Late 19th-century cast-iron railings are present to the front of the first two houses, featuring a band of rosettes at the top and bottom, a spearhead to every fourth rail, and the tops of each first and third rail linked in an arch over a smaller spearhead. The top and bottom rails are angled to accommodate the slope. Ornate terminal features and gatepiers have moulded uprights, embossed stars in the frieze, and ogee-pointed caps with a top finial. A flat terminal sits at each end, with a pair of openwork gate piers in front of the main entry. The railings have been cut to provide basement access in front of the first house, though the cut section is retained. A hinged section of railing is present in front of the second house, indicating a former basement entry.

The interior has been much altered on the ground floors; the upper floors have not been inspected.