Luggershill And Summerhouse Immediately East

The house at Luggershill, with its associated summerhouse, was built in 1911 by A.N. Prentice for Alfred Parsons, a landscape painter and member of the Broadway Group of artists. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with limestone dressings, and has a stone tile roof with stone-coped gable ends. The house is set on a Z-shaped plan, with cross-wings projecting to the south-east and north-west.

The asymmetrical elevations incorporate ashlar axial, lateral, and gable-end stacks with moulded cornices. The north-east front features a three-bay centre with three-light casements, a central doorway with an open porch, a fanlight with radiating bars, and a fielded six-panel door. A gabled cross-wing to the right has twelve-pane sashes and a casement, while a projecting wing on the left incorporates hipped half-dormers and large sashes on its return, along with a single-storey, hipped-roof range on the gable end. The south-east elevation includes two hipped half-dormers with ball finials, an ashlar stack, tripartite sashes, and a recessed balcony with a balustrade on Tuscan columns. The south-west elevation is arranged with a 1:2:1 bay configuration, with the left and right portions gabled; the left projects, and features various tripartite sashes, two of which on the ground floor are bowed; a stair window on the first floor has a thirty-pane sash, and a cupola sits on the ridge, topped with a weathervane.

The interior exhibits a Neo-Georgian style and remains largely intact, with surviving original joinery including panelled doors and an open-well staircase with a wooden balustrade and an octagonal dome with a lantern above. However, the plasterwork is largely recent plastic decoration.

The summerhouse is located immediately east of the main house, built into the garden wall. It is circular on plan, with an open front supported by two slim stone columns and pilasters, and topped with a sprocketed conical stone tile roof with a ball finial. Luggershill was designed for Alfred William Parsons (1847-1922), and, as a garden designer, he also created the gardens surrounding the house.