Summer House Farmhouse And Flat

Summer House Farmhouse and flat is a farmhouse that has been converted into two dwellings, dating from around 1830 and altered since. It features a cement-rendered exterior and a 20th-century cement-tile roof. The building is two to three storeys high and has a layout of one bay, three bays, and one bay. The taller, canted center section is flanked by lean-to outer bays, and there is a later rear addition. Designed in the Gothick style, it has an ashlar plinth and three rectangular steps leading to a part-glazed six-panel door with a fanlight that has Gothick glazing bars, all set in a hooded, arched ashlar surround. The other bays feature projecting sills and ashlar surrounds for pointed sashes with intersecting-tracery glazing bars. On the first floor, there is a band, and the central bays have a sill band that connects the ashlar surrounds of trefoil-headed sashes, while bays one and five have blind quatrefoils. The second floor includes a string course, three blind quatrefoils, and a band. The roofs are masked by embattled parapets, with the center featuring a ridge stack and a hip to the rear. This building is a prominent landmark visible from the Great North Road.