How is Pemberley's description representative of its owner's personality in Pride and Prejudice?

It is highly revealing that in Chapter 43 we meet
Pemberley as the home of Darcy before we actually meet a very different and changed
Darcy from the man we have come to know from the earlier chapters in the book. Often
Austen uses buildings to reveal characters, and this is a prime example. Note how
Pemberley is described as Lizzie sets eyes on it for the first time and how it
symbolises the character of its owner:

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It was a large, handsome, stone building,
standing well on rising ground, and backed by a ridge of high woody hills; and in front,
a stream of some natural importance was swelled into greater, but without any artificial
appearance. Its banks were neither formal nor falsely
adorned.

The house, like its
owner, is handsome and has a good position. Yet what is most important to a novel that
is all about first impressions and the gap between reality and artifice, Pemberley is
what it is without any unnatural improvements. Note how the banks of the stream are
"neither formal nor falsely adorned," indicating that Darcy is very natural in who he
is. He does not pretend to be something that he is not, as so many other characters to
in this novel. It is important, and rather ironic, that at this stage in the novel
Lizzie remarks that to be the mistress of Pemberley would be
"something."