Summer house in Blake Gardens

The summer house in Blake Gardens is a Grade II listed structure, primarily built from local Wemdon sandstone rubble and brick, with some limestone rubble included. It features a shallow, domed concrete roof, although the original shape of the roof is not known.

The building has a circular plan with a diameter of approximately 3 meters and is supported by seven projecting buttresses. The exterior walls are divided into bays by substantial brick buttresses, which incorporate reused bricks from the 17th and 18th centuries. The upper sections of the buttresses are chamfered, topped with two courses of brick and a dentil cornice.

On the west side, there is an entrance with a pointed-arched head formed by alternate raised bricks, flanked by crudely fashioned single-light windows with pointed heads. The south side features two lancet-style windows positioned close to the ground, with a matching opening on the north side. There is a second entrance roughly opposite the west entrance, slightly offset to the north, but this has been blocked.

Inside, the summer house has shallow fixed curved seats on either side of the entrances, and the ceiling is vaulted.