Summer House

This is a house, likely built around 1710 to 1720. It is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with ashlar stone dressings and a plain tile roof. The brick stacks are prominent. The building is oriented east-west, facing west, and includes a basement, two main floors, and an attic.

The exterior features a plinth with a moulded coping, a band dividing the ground and first floors, and a boldly-moulded eaves cornice. There are three bays, with giant pilasters vertically accentuating the façade. The windows are 24-pane sashes with segmental heads, raised and moulded architraves, moulded sills and raised keystones. Blocked circular basement windows are set within moulded surrounds. The attic window is located within a pedimented gable which appears to have been altered, flanked by rusticated strips that continue the alignment of the inner giant pilasters. A central two-leaf, half-glazed door has a lugged and bolection-moulded surround, a fanlight with radiating glazing bars and a segmental pediment. A flight of steps leads to the door, flanked by brick walls that fan outwards and terminate in square stone piers. The side elevations, also four bays wide, feature 24-pane glazing bar sashes, and 20th-century casements at basement level, with the plinth, storey band and cornice continued.

The east elevation is similar in appearance but lacks the stone architraves. A central door is located at basement level here, and the attic window is flanked by rusticated quoins of unequal length. This gable has undergone some alteration, like the western gable.

Inside, the front door opens into an entrance hall. A panelled, semi-circular arch with a raised key gives access to an early 18th-century dog-leg staircase. This staircase has an open string, carved tread ends, slim twisted balusters, a wreathed and ramped handrail with fluted foot newels, and leads to both the basement and the upper floors. A separate service staircase rises from the basement to the attic, also accessible from the main landing. Four rooms branch from the entrance hall. The rear rooms feature large raised wall panels with moulded surrounds, window seats and fireplaces with alcoves having bolection-moulded surrounds. The front rooms also have fireplaces with bolection-moulded surrounds. Some upper rooms contain low wooden wall panelling. Original 18th-century panelled doors are throughout the house. The basement rooms have stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.