Summerseat, 119A Dunadry Road, Dunadry, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 4QJ

Summerseat is a two-storey, four-bay rendered and gabled house located in Dunadry. The main building comprises a three-bay section with a symmetrical south-facing entrance front, to which an adjoining asbestos-slated outbuilding has been incorporated at ground floor level, with storage accommodation above.

The south elevation features a naturally slated roof with Bangor blue slates in regular courses covering three bays on the right side, and asbestos slates on the left-hand end bay. Dark toned ridge tiles cap the roof, and two modern brick chimneys with modern pots project from it. The walls are smooth cement rendered with projecting moulded eaves course and quoins at the extremities. A moulded cast iron gutter in poor condition runs along the eaves, with a cast iron downpipe at the left-hand end returning to the west elevation; the supporting eaves course is broken off at the right-hand extremity.

Ground floor windows on either side of the entrance are rectangular timber sliding sashes, vertically hung, arranged in tripartite formation with 6 over 6 lights to the central section and 2 over 2 to the side lights, without horns, and in poor condition. These are set in stop-chamfered reveals with projecting rendered cills and surmounted by drip mouldings ornamented with paterae. First floor windows are similarly sashed but reduced in height, arranged as 3 over 6 flanked by 1 over 2, without drip mouldings. The window in the ground floor of the left-hand end bay is a small rectangular timber fixed light with top-hung vent, set in plain reveals with a rendered hood moulding now broken off.

The entrance is set within an elliptical-arched surround that is stop-chamfered and surmounted by a drip moulding matching those of the ground floor windows. This is recessed within an open rectangular flat-roofed porch with smooth rendered finish to both interior and exterior, painted white inside, with modern red tiled flooring. The doorway contains a modern rectangular timber four-panel door flanked by rectangular single-pane sidelights and surmounted by a radial fanlight with modern translucent glazing now broken; all woodwork is modern replacement.

The west gable is rendered with a wet dash of black stone chippings, with a vertical strip of smooth render at the right-hand extremity marking the quoin line of the entrance front. Overhanging eaves with timber barge boards in poor condition project from this gable. A cast iron downpipe stops short of the ground at the right-hand side. Two windows to the first floor are rectangular metal-framed set in plain reveals with recessed cills; one to the left appears to occupy a partly built-up former doorway, now rendered flush with the gable, with only a concrete base remaining from exterior steps that have been removed. The ground floor window is a large modern rectangular timber fixed light with top-hung vents, set in plain reveals with a projecting rendered cill.

The rear elevation is two-storey. The roof is slated as the entrance front. The wall is rendered as the west gable. Cast iron gutter and downpipes stop short of the ground. Five windows to the first floor comprise four rectangular timber sliding sashes of 6 over 6 without horns, with exposed sash boxes and projecting concrete cills, and one smaller rectangular timber four-pane fixed light or casement at the extreme right. Two windows to the ground floor include a large rectangular timber sliding sash of 6 over 6 with margin lights, without horns and in poor condition, and a smaller sashed window of 2 over 2 with horns. At the extreme right is a deeply recessed rectangular timber glazed and sheeted door with two concrete steps.

Projecting forward from the main rear wall to the left is a lower lean-to block with slated roof in poor condition. Its rainwater goods and render match the main rear wall. Two windows, one metal-framed and one timber with small panes, are in poor condition. The west side of the lean-to has a deeply recessed rectangular timber four-panel door set in plain reveals; the east side has a metal-paned window.

The east gable of the house and east side of the lean-to projection are finished in smooth cement render, lined and blocked, with quoins to the left-hand extremity. Overhanging eaves with timber barge boards on a pair of shaped timber brackets project from the main gable; the lean-to extension has a flush verge to its right. One window to the ground floor of the main gable matches those of the main ground floor windows of the entrance front. Cast iron soil pipes are present on this elevation.

The building stands facing the main road but set well back from it within its own grounds and farmland. Access from the main road is by a tree-lined tarmac driveway terminating in a large tarmac area in front of the house, with a branch leading east to a nearby new house. Projecting from the entrance front near the left-hand end is a short rendered screen wall connecting with an iron gateway linked to a single-storey rendered and gabled outbuilding to the south-west. To the west and north lies a tarmac and concrete farmyard surrounded by rendered outbuildings of no architectural interest. To the east is a grassy lawn leading to the new house.