Summerseat conservation area consists of two parts, Higher and Lower Summerseat.
Higher Summerseat, on the west side is the older part of the settlement consisting of a number of small stone terraces, two public houses and a farm with some of the surviving buildings dating from the early 18th century. This small group is set within farmland to the east and south and open space to the north. The area remained rather isolated until the inter-war years when the building of Newcombe Road improved the access facilitating new house building which now encloses the conservation area to the west. The setting of this group is much enhanced by woodland in the grounds of Summerseat House and Peel Hall.
Lower Summerseat lies adjacent to the Irwell to the north and east and is largely a development of the industrial revolution. The area consists of small rows of stone terraces surrounded by open scrub and pasture. The character of the area is again enhanced by the wooded valleys.
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