THE SUMMER HOUSE

THE SUMMER HOUSE, 5, THE LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1362511
Date first listed:: 07-Mar-1985
List Entry Name:: THE SUMMER HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE SUMMER HOUSE, 5, THE LANE

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Date:: 2006-09-19
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1362511
Date first listed:: 07-Mar-1985
List Entry Name:: THE SUMMER HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE SUMMER HOUSE, 5, THE LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THE SUMMER HOUSE, 5, THE LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lancashire
District:: Lancaster (District Authority)
Parish:: Overton
National Grid Reference:: SD 42513 56044

Details

SD 45 NW OVERTON THE LANE

7/133 Sunderland Point

- No. 5 (The Summer House)

- II

House, said to have been built as a pilot station, early-to-mid C18th, extended on east side in 1890s. Pebbledashed rubble with sandstone dressings and pyramid roof of stone slate and slate. Original building one storey with cellar, now with inserted floor,and of square plan with corner pilaster strips and moulded eaves soffit. 3 sides have tall modern windows within the original plain stone surrounds, now cutting across the inserted floor. The 4th window, on the east side, has been covered by the later extension. The window surround on the west side has an outer rebate for a shutter. The right-hand pilaster strip on the south side has been moved to the outer side of the extension. Inside, a boarded timber ceiling remains, with timber cornice and circular bolection-moulded border for a central compass rose, now missing. Within the loft space a hole for a shaft can be seen at the apex of the roof. Originally a wind vane was connected by a shaft to a pointer on the ceiling which indicated the direction of the wind.

Listing NGR: SD4251356044

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Legacy System number:: 182198
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.