The Summerhouse about 10 metres South West of Compton Castle

MATERIALS: Ham stone, roughly cut and squared, with ashlar dressings. The windows have leaded lights.

PLAN: the building is essentially elliptical on plan, being formed of a rectangular block standing on a north/south alignment, with a semi-circular bay at each end, and a central projecting bay on the entrance, eastern frontage.

EXTERIOR: of two storeys, with three bays to the central, rectangular block, and an additional curved bay to north and south. Within the eastern elevation, the projecting central bay contains a doorway formed of three moulded pointed arches, the two central divisions reduced to pendentives, with foliate bosses; there is a further arch to the north and south ends of the bay. The wide double doors are carved with linenfold panels. Above the entrance, a large rectangular mullioned and transomed window with Tudor arches to each of the ten lights. To either side of the entrance, a window set in a round-headed niche with a keystone, and over, a single-light Tudor-arched window. In the side bays, irregularly placed single-light windows with hoodmoulds. A coved cornice is surmounted by a plain parapet. The rear elevation is without ornament.

INTERIOR: on the ground floor, the walls are unrendered, and the floor is flagged. To the north, a niche between two doors, the left-hand door leading to the curved stair. The walls of the upper floor are rendered, and there is a plain stone fire-surround with chamfered lintel to the south end. The interior doors are original to the building, being unpainted, with flat Tudor arches, set within moulded frames.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURE: the building is linked to the 1820s Apple Room, also listed, by a cranked stone wall with stone coping.

We have considered whether powers of exclusion under s.1 (5A) of the 1990 Act are appropriate, and consider they are not.