summerhouse
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In future episodes, we will speak with buyers considering alternatives such as 3D-printed homes or a summerhouse in their parents’ backyard, and with renters opting out of homeownership entirely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
For Lieutenant Sikal, the trip to the summerhouse on Jan. 3, 2018, was just the start.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2019
Mr Budd's summerhouse roof had been blown four houses down the street and landed in Trev Harris's garden after striking his conservatory and roof.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2015
Her summerhouse catches fire, but the fire is static and unsmoking.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2012
Listening behind the summerhouse, Eleanor heard their laughter and the sound of their feet running down the path to the house.“
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
In 1621, and in 1624, he repeated his visit, when he built many summerhouses and palaces at Atchabull, Shalimar, &c., and in A.D.
From Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet by Knight, William Henry
Passing again to the front of the house, Lecour saw the mob angrily tearing up garden benches and summerhouses for the same purpose.
From The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette by Lighthall, W. D. (William Douw)
Nothing but summerhouses on a large scale are the South California barns.
From Ramona by Jackson, Helen Hunt
In every town there stood "scaffolding" or raised platforms, where the inhabitants frequently sat and conversed, and which served somewhat the same purpose as our own outdoor summerhouses of olden times.
From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Forman, Henry Chandlee
The grottoes of the superior garden are here replaced by light ranges of arched summerhouses, designed in stucco, and occasionally adorned in their interior with fresco paintings of considerable brightness and beauty.
From The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character by Ruskin, John
