The suburban neighborhood of Pawtucket that borders the East Side of Providence offers a notable sampling of English-themed Tudor and Georgian Revival architecture.

Known as the Sayles Heights Plat, this area’s British feel is not only apparent in the look of the house but in its street names — Nottingham, Kenilworth and Leicester way. It’s an area of manicured lawns and large residential two- and three-story dwellings, which are minutes from the city and major highways.

The stately brick center hall Colonial at 27 Leicester Way is an example of one of the area’s notable dwellings. The decorative front entrance has a one-story arched overhang with columns as supports, a gable roof and a large lantern chandelier. Above it on the second floor is a stained-glass window.

There are lots of additional exterior details such as a fan light over the front door, side lights and pilasters. There are brackets under the second-floor eaves and bay window (with a copper overhang), dentil molding and a single band around the house of bricks turned upright. The attached two-car garage has similar details.

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Joanne and Sheldon “Shelly” Summer took over the house, built in 1940, from Sheldon’s mother in the mid-1960s. Sheldon’s mom bought it in the 1950s from the original owners. The Summers, who lived there for about 43 years, have relocated to Florida.

They are selling 27 Leicester Way, which has six bedrooms, four full bathrooms (and one half-bath), oil heat and central air-conditioning, for $619,000. It has more than 3,445 square feet of living space, and it sits on a lot of 10,000 square feet.

About four years after moving in, the Summers renovated the kitchen, adding a breakfast room, and they enlarged the den. They put in a brick patio in the backyard off the den and breakfast room, and landscaped the yard, which is nearly fenced-in except for a small portion on the side of the house near the patio.

The breakfast room and den, with cherry-wood built-in cabinets, have sliding glass doors leading to the yard. In the kitchen, the Summers covered the counters with Silestone; put in a floor of tumbled tiles; and added a stainless steel diamond-shaped back splash on the wall behind the electric cook top. The kitchen has a double oven.

“I love the kitchen. I got rid of the old design, and made it contemporary,” says Joanne Summer. “It was great and fit all my children [they had four] comfortably, and the neighborhood kids, too.”

Throughout the bottom level, except for the den, are exposed hardwood floors with double bands of mahogany inlays. (The hardwood floors in three of the second-floor bedrooms are covered with carpet.) On the main floor, there are archways leading into the dining room and the living room.

The formal dining area has a bay window and two corner built-in cabinets; the living room has a fireplace; and the main floor has a full bathroom with a marble sink, original art deco black-and-white tiny tiles on the floor and subway tiles on the walls.

“The builder paid attention to detail,” adds Summer, noting the formal staircase in the front hall with decorative detailing on the side. “It was built solidly and to last.”

As for the second floor, there are two full bathrooms with art deco-like tiles on the floor and walls. The bath in the master suite has two entrances either via the bedroom or the hall. The bedrooms boast built-in cabinets. One standout is a full-wall of shelves and cabinets in the master bedroom.

On the third floor, there are two bedrooms and a full bathroom as well as storage.

In the basement, there’s a half-bathroom; a finished room with a dry bar and a Pergo laminate hardwood-looking floor. The oil tank is in the unfinished part of the basement. There are lots of closets, and a fourth room that Sheldon Summer used as a work shop.

“We held a lot of meetings and threw many parties in this house,” she says. “There was lots of room to spread out and constant motion and commotion.”

The six-bedroom, 4.5 bathroom colonial at 27 Leicester Way, Pawtucket, is for sale for $619,000. It has central air-conditioning, in-ground sprinkler system, oil heat, and 3,445 square feet of living space. The taxes are $5,600. Ronnee Wasserman, Coleman Realtors, (401) 274-3636, has the listing.

An open house is scheduled tomorrow from noon to 2.How to submit a House of the Week

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