Summer House, South Street
Summer House, South Street
HER Number
15893
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Summer House, South Street
Place
East Rainton
Map Sheet
NZ34NW
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
House
Site Type: Specific
Detached House
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Description
Summer House is shown on the Ordnance Survey first edition map of circa 1860. A photograph (undated) shows a rubble stone house, two storeys with slate roof and three chimneys. The upper window on the righthand side of the front elevation is an oriel window. The front door is in a porch with a pitched slate roof. Demolished to make way for Summerhouse Farm estate in the 1970s.
Easting
433520
Northing
548000
Grid Reference
NZ433520548000
Sources
East Rainton Women's Institute, ?1940s, History of East Rainton (typescript)