summer house

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Noun1.summer house - a country house (usually located in the country) that provides a cool place to live in the summersummer house - a country house (usually located in the country) that provides a cool place to live in the summer
country house - a house (usually large and impressive) on an estate in the country
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I doubt whether Eustace did not internally pronounce the whole thing a bore, until I led him to my predecessor's little ruined, rustic summer house, midway on the hillside.
"The summer house itself, so airy and so broken, is like one of those old tales, imperfectly remembered; and these living branches of the Baldwin apple tree, thrusting so rudely in, are like your unwarrantable interpolations.
My young friend was willing, in short, that the fresh verdure of his growing reputation should spread over my straggling and half-naked boughs; even as I have sometimes thought of training a vine, with its broad leafiness, and purple fruitage, over the worm-eaten posts and rafters of the rustic summer house. I was not insensible to the advantages of his proposal, and gladly assured him of my acceptance.
The summer house, with its own power supply, makes an ideal, trendy bolthole
In the back garden, an adorable little summer house is fully rigged up with its own power, perfect for weekend rentals or Airbnb visitors.
It offers a sleek interior with three bedrooms and fully enclosed garden, complete with a summer house.
A MAN'S summer house burnt to the ground in a fire that is believed to have been started deliberately - just three years after another fire at his home.
Patrick O'Rourke McGuire: new decking, summer house and fence (in retrospect); at 15 Brodie Way, Plains.
A "CRUEL" care home worker took cash from a dementia patient to pay for debts and "luxury items" including a B&Q summer house.
A "CRUEL" care home worker took cash from a dementia patient to pay off debts and buy "luxury items" including a B&Q summer house.
IF YOU'RE ONE OF THE 65,024 PEOPLE who, according to the Census, are new to Sarasota County since 2004, the name of the best new restaurant on Siesta Key, Summer House, likely means nothing.
THE SUMMER HOUSE by Philip Teir, Serpent's Tail, PS12.99 (ebook PS3.99) HHH HH SWEDEN-FINLAND writer Philip Teir is a rising star of the contemporary fiction scene, and in The Summer House tells the tale of Helsinki couple Julia and Erik holidaying with their children, Alice and Anton, at the family's old seaside summer home.
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