The Summer House

The Summer House is a house believed to have been built as a pilot station in the early to mid-18th century, with an extension added to the east side in the 1890s. The building features pebbledashed rubble with sandstone dressings and has a pyramid roof made of stone slate and slate. The original structure is a single storey with a cellar, now with an inserted floor, and has a square plan with corner pilaster strips and a moulded eaves soffit. Three sides of the house have tall modern windows set within the original plain stone surrounds, which now cut across the inserted floor. The fourth window, located on the east side, has been covered by the later extension. The window surround on the west side includes an outer rebate for a shutter. Notably, the right-hand pilaster strip on the south side has been relocated to the outer side of the extension. Inside, there is a boarded timber ceiling featuring a timber cornice and a circular bolection-moulded border that once framed a central compass rose, which is now missing. In the loft space, a hole for a shaft can be seen at the apex of the roof, indicating that a wind vane was originally connected by a shaft to a pointer on the ceiling to show the wind direction.