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"Sunnyside Lodge" house name plaque. House signs have been used since ancient times to personalise a dwelling, turning a house into a home. [1] See also
The Slate Roof House was a mansion that stood on 2nd Street north of Walnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from about 1687 until its demolition in 1867. Built for Barbadian Quaker merchant Samuel Carpenter , the house occupied a small hill overlooking the Delaware River .
A house and cottage under one roof, with an attached outbuilding, they are in stone, the house and cottage painted, with stone slate roofs, The house and cottage have two storeys, six bays, a rear outshut, and quoins. The house has a doorway with a segmental head, a quoined surround, and a beaded arris, above which is a dated and initialled plaque.
The house was restored in about 1900 and since used as a hotel. It is roughcast with a slate roof, and has two storeys. The house has an L-shaped plan, with a south front of five bays and an east front of two bays. The windows are mullioned, some also have a transom, and there are bay windows on both fronts.
The farmhouse and farm buildings are in limestone and slate rubble, with slate roofs, and enclose a rectangular yard. The house has two storeys and four bays, with a single-storey wing at the rear. The doorway has a moulded stone hood on shaped brackets, and the windows are casements. The farm buildings have openings of various types.
The house has a stone-slate roof, and is in two storeys and two bays, with mullioned windows. In the centre is a single-storey gabled porch, above which is an inscribed plaque. The barn to the left has a slate roof, and a wide entrance with a segmental arch. [27] II: Tatham Bridge Inn