Summerhill Including Garden Area Wall to South is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 April 1989. House.
Summerhill Including Garden Area Wall to South
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 April 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Summerhill Including Garden Area Wall to South, Strete
- OS grid reference
- SX 842 471
- Coordinates
- 50.31296, -3.62676
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a small house, likely dating to around 1835, with extensions added in the 20th century. The exterior is stone rubble, stuccoed at the front and on the west side, with a low-pitched asbestos tile roof and a red clay ridge tile. There are painted brick stacks on either side. The house has a double depth rectangular plan, consisting of two principal rooms at the front, a central entrance hall with a dog-leg staircase at the rear, and a pantry to the left. Originally, a small unheated room likely existed at the back of the right-hand room. A two-story wing at the back houses the kitchen, with a stack on the right side. In the 20th century, a single-story extension was built on the left side of the original kitchen, and a conservatory on the left side of the main block.
The south east front has three windows arranged symmetrically. It features a plain band at first floor level, original early 19th century two-light French casements with glazing bars and margin panes, hooded by moulded wooden cornices. The first-floor windows have 20th-century facsimile wrought iron balconies. A central doorway now has an original panelled door (with glazed top panels) and a 20th-century wrought iron porch with a tent-shaped canopy. To the left is a 20th-century conservatory, and to the right, a lean-to garage, which may have originally been a coach house. The rear of the house features a hipped roof wing with a stack on the left side and a 20th-century single-story extension to the right.
The garden area has a 19th-century wall constructed of local stone rubble with cemented rubble coping, including a central pedestrian gateway with steps leading up to it.
Inside, much of the original joinery remains, including panelled doors and a dog-leg staircase with stick balusters, moulded newel posts, and a moulded hand rail. The ground floor front rooms have replacement fireplaces, but an original fireplace with a bracketed shelf survives in the first-floor left-hand front room. There is no moulded plasterwork present.
Local climate
Summerhill Including Garden Area Wall to South receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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