Sutton Grange

Sutton Grange is a house, built around 1815 for George Alder, a Hull merchant. It was converted in 1951 and now serves as an old people's home, with later 20th-century additions to the rear. The house is constructed of yellow brick with painted ashlar dressings and a Westmorland slate roof featuring a single ridge and three side wall stacks. The main elevations feature a plinth, sill bands, dentillated eaves, a cornice, and blocking.

The front facade has corner pilasters and a projecting central bay with a 12-pane sash window. Flanking this are similar windows. A tetrastyle Greek Doric portico, with a full entablature, shelters a fielded panelled door with an overlight. Sashes with round-arched fanlights are positioned either side of the door. A recessed wing to the left features two 9-pane sashes.

The south-facing garden front has a projecting three-bay centre with a central 12-pane sash set within a moulded surround and a corbelled sill. Further sashes are arranged symmetrically. Recessed panels are located beneath the windows, with a swag design on the central one. The fourth window from the left has been altered to a French window. A narrow stone terrace, supported by segmental arches, runs along the front, complete with curved steps and a wrought-iron handrail with cast-iron ornamentation.

The north-facing return has a round-headed window centrally placed, flanked by sashes and a doorcase similar to that on the garden front. A two-storey hipped wing extends to the rear.

The rear elevation to the east has blank windows at each end, and two 12-pane sashes in the centre, with the right one being smaller. A late 19th-century wooden bow window protrudes to the left, flanked by a blank window and a mid-20th-century single-storey corridor connecting to further additions.

The interior features an entrance hall with four reeded doorcases adorned with paterae. A central cantilever stone staircase, with a decorated wrought-iron balustrade and ramped scrolled handrail, rises beneath a conical skylight. The landing has a moulded elliptical arch and a recessed reeded doorcase, with round-arched doorways on either side. A front ground-floor room has plaster wall panels, an enriched frieze and cornice with a vine trail, two reeded doorcases, a classical marble fireplace with terms and cornices. A rear ground-floor room has a reeded cornice, an elliptical-arched recess, and a plain reeded marble fireplace. Another ground-floor room displays an Adam-style frieze and cornice, with fleurons and cartouches, and two reeded doorcases.