Summerton (or Somerton), Castleknock, Co Dublin 

Bence-Jones, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London. 

P. 268. “[Brooke, Bt, of Summerton/PB, Laidlaw/LgI1958] A two storey late-Georgian house with an entrance front consisting of a recessed centre between one bay projections joined by an Ionic colonnade. Four bay side. Heavy quoins; parapeted roof. Room with ceiling of Adamesque plasterwork. In the days of George Brooke, 1st Bt, Summerton was the scene of lavish Edwardian hospitality; with the result that it has to be sold 1911, the buyer being T.K. Laidlaw.” 

supplement 

“The Adamesque plasterwork in one of the bedrooms is by Michael Stapleton, who designed the earlier house which is incorporated in the present structure. The house was done over by Richard Orpen in the Edwardian period.”