Summer House In Grounds Of Ebrington Manor

The Summer House in the grounds of Ebrington Manor is a Grade II* listed building, dating from the late 17th to early 18th century, designed in the Queen Anne style. It features an irregularly bonded brick structure set on a projecting brick plinth topped with moulded limestone. The first floor is constructed in Flemish bond brick, with colored headers in the top five courses indicating some rebuilding. The building has rusticated limestone quoins and a hipped roof covered with limestone slate, which includes a brick stack with a moulded limestone top positioned to the left of the eaves.

To the right is a bakehouse made of large limestone rubble with rusticated quoins and a domed oven projecting from the right wall. It also has a limestone slate roof with an ashlar stack near the front. A 20th-century extension is made of coursed squared limestone and features an artificial stone roof. The main body of the building consists of one room, with the bakehouse attached to the right. The bakehouse and the 20th-century extension are flush with the facade, although the extension extends back at the rear.

The main block is two storeys high with an attic, featuring two flat-roofed dormers that contain two-light 20th-century casements with horizontal glazing bars. The facade has a three-window arrangement with four and eight-pane sashes, all framed by moulded limestone architraves and sills. The sills of the eight-pane sashes on the ground floor are supported by decorative brackets. A six-panelled double door, accessed by three steps, is set within a lugged, moulded limestone architrave topped with a broken segmental pediment that houses a heraldic shield.

Inside the main body, there is a small barrel-vaulted cellar beneath. A wooden spiral staircase, likely original, is located in the right corner at the rear. The central room features a polished limestone fireplace with a keystone, probably from the 19th century. The ceiling of this room once had decorative plasterwork, which was transferred to the open hall in Ebrington Manor in 1925. The inspection of the ground floor was limited.