Sutton Hall

Sutton Hall is a house primarily dating to the early 19th century, exhibiting late Georgian/Regency characteristics, but incorporating a core from the 17th or early 18th century. It is a two-story building with an attic in the roof, originally of three windows, with a later, one-window, easterly extension under the same roof. The original house has smooth rendered walls with rusticated stone quoins. A flat-roofed projecting Tuscan portico with two columns at the front and pilasters at the rear is a prominent feature. There are two-story semi-circular bays in the southern part of the west gable and a single-story bay in the south front of the east extension. The roof is covered with graded grey stone slate, featuring a parapet and a modillioned eaves cornice. Simple rendered chimneys are present. Subwindows and doors are recessed, and the window openings have eared moulded plaster surrounds. French windows with 20 panes (likely replacements) are found in the main ground floor rooms. The first floor front has 12-pane double-hung sashes. A replacement front door has been installed.

The west elevation features a French window to the parlour, a 24-pane double-hung sash to the main staircase—noted for its narrow margin panes and horns to the bottom rail of the upper sash—and a 12-pane double-hung sash to a bedroom. A blocked quatrefoil window is located in the gable’s attic space. The east elevation has Georgian double-hung sash and fixed light windows. An attic gable features a five-pane quatrefoil window and a replacement door. The rear elevation has been altered.

Inside the main hall, all ground floor doors have six plain panels, with panelled casings and good moulded architraves ornamented by carved rosettes in the top corners. The southwest room has lightly moulded plaster ceilings, while the hall itself has damaged 18th-century panelled walls. Egg and dart cornices and moulded plastered beams to decorative consoles with lion’s head bases are present in the stairwell. The staircase is a 19th-century replacement with an arched balustrade to the first floor. Panelling extends to dado level on the staircase and landing, and six-panel doors lead to first-floor bedrooms, alongside two modern bathrooms. A second-floor staircase features good turned balusters (one per step). The attic bedrooms contain square-section chamfered unsawn oak purlins.

At 7 Sutton Hall Drive, the interior features six-panel doors to the parlour and first-floor rooms, and four-board ledged and battened doors to the second-floor rooms. The staircase is a possible 19th-century replacement with a simple handrail but lacking balusters.