Summerhill Farmhouse

Summerhill Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating back to the 17th century or earlier. A rear wing was added in the mid to late 18th century, when the main roof was likely renewed, and the front range was remodelled in the 19th century.

The house is constructed of solid rendered walls, likely stone rubble, with the left wall of the rear wing being rendered timber framing and the rear wall of the outshut of concrete block. It has a slate roof, half-hipped at the left-hand end, and large rendered chimneys on the left gable wall and rear wall. A smaller rendered brick chimney is on the front wall. The interior layout contains three rooms in a row, with the entrance in the right gable wall, opening into a stairhall and passage behind the two right-hand rooms. The middle room appears to be an enlargement of a through-passage from the 19th century; the left-hand room was created from two earlier rooms in the 20th century. Behind the main house is a kitchen wing to the right and a lean-to pump-house to the left. The house is two storeys high, with a single-storey pump-house. It has four windows, irregularly spaced, with small-paned windows, mostly wood casements. There are three sash windows to the right of the upper storey and two more in the right gable wall. A glazed porch, dating to the 19th century and extended in the late 20th century, fronts the house, along with a half-glazed door in the right gable wall, featuring an oblong fanlight with intersecting glazing bars.

The front range retains 19th-century details, including six-panelled doors, an iron fireplace, and an open-well wood stair with a closed string, thin square balusters, and a handrail ramped up over column newels. In the rear wall of the former hall, there's a large 17th-century fireplace with a heavy wood lintel, showing traces of chamfer and stop, and remains of a granite-framed oven. Next to the gable fireplace of the former inner room is a rounded recess with a blocked-in flue, potentially for a cream oven. The kitchen includes two 18th-century cupboards with round-arched, ovolo-moulded panelled doors, and a similar two-panelled door with strap-hinges. The pump-house has a cobbled floor and an iron pump.

Seven roof trusses, plus one in the wing, are all likely from the 18th century, featuring tie-beams, through-purlins, collars halved to principal rafters with pegs and nails. A cobbled courtyard in front of the house, recently resurfaced, has yielded a coin from 1806.