Pembroke Buildings

Pembroke Buildings is a tall, symmetrical structure featuring three storeys and a basement, with a five-bay façade. The building is faced with red brick, complemented by Bath stone dressings and a Portland stone ground floor. It has a bracket cornice and a solid parapet, with cornices adorning the end stacks. The end pilasters are rusticated and include swagged tablets. The second-floor windows are lugged, with husk drops, and are linked by aprons to open segmental pediments on brackets above the keystone architraves of the first-floor windows, which have a wider central surround with volute supports. The windows are sashes with small-pane glazing.

Above the ground floor cornice, which breaks forward at the centre doorpiece, there are aprons leading to a deep frieze. The entrance features a Doric porch with a triglyph frieze that includes a name tablet, an arched entrance with a volute keyblock, and double three-panel doors with traceries. The side windows are arched and keyblocked, with cavetto splays.

The building retains good original area railings with a gate leading to the rusticated basement. At the rear, there is a hipped roof to a partly white-tiled and rendered range that extends back from the classical frontage on Pier Street. This rear elevation is three storeys high with five windows, constructed of brick and featuring a freestone cornice, parapet, and window surrounds with aprons. The central doorway is arched and has a curved hood supported by brackets.