Summerland

Summerland is a house located in Dartmouth, built around 1830 with some later 19th century and 20th century modernizations. The building is constructed of plastered stone rubble and features one disused stack without a chimney shaft, and another with a brick chimney shaft and pots, all under a hipped slate roof.

The house has a double-depth plan, with two rooms wide, and stands three storeys tall with an attic. The front facade has three windows, which may have originally been symmetrical. The central doorway features a part-glazed six-panel door, topped by a flat-roofed timber porch supported on fluted columns. To the right on the ground floor is a large late 19th century horned sash window without glazing bars. On the left, there is a canted bay that rises through the ground and first floors, containing casement windows with glazing bars.

The first floor has central and right French windows with margin glazing that open onto a full-width cast-iron balcony, which has an ornamental balustrade featuring intersecting circles and friezes with a fret pattern that includes anthemia. The second floor is fitted with eight-pane sashes that have horizontal glazing bars, and there are smaller sashes in the two front dormer windows, each with hipped roofs. The interior has not been inspected but is noted to include 19th century joinery and a stick-baluster staircase.