Sutton Grange

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TA 13 SW, 680-1/5/460

KINGSTON UPON HULL, SALTSHOUSE ROAD, Sutton (South West side), Sutton Grange

Also known as: Dunbar House SALTSHOUSE ROAD Sutton.

13/10/52

II

House, now old people's home. Built c1815 for George Alder, Hull merchant, converted 1951, with mid C20 rear additions. Yellow brick with painted ashlar dressings and hipped Westmorland slate roof with single ridge and three side wall stacks. Main fronts have plinth, sill bands, dentillated eaves, cornice and blocking. Two storeys; 3x5 windows. Windows are glazing bar sashes, mainly with splayed lintels. Entrance front has corner pilasters and a projecting single bay centre with a 12-pane sash. On either side, a similar window. Below, steps to tetrastyle Greek Doric portico with full entablature covering a fielded panelled margin stile door with overlight. On either side, a tall 15-pane sash with round-arched fan head. To left, a recessed rear wing with a single 9-pane sash on each floor. Garden front, to south, has a 3-bay projecting centre with a central 12-pane sash with moulded surround and corbelled sill. On either side, a similar sash, and beyond again, single sashes. Below the windows, recessed panels, the central one with swags. Below, 15-pane sashes, the central one with moulded surround and pediment on scroll brackets and the fourth from left altered to form a French window. Outside, a narrow stone terrace carried on segmental arches, with curved steps at each end and a wrought-iron handrail with cast-iron ornament. Left return, to north, has a round-headed central window. To left, a plain sash flanked by single 12-pane sashes. Central pedimented doorcase similar to garden front. To right, a 2-storey hipped rear wing. Rear elevation, to east, has a blank window at each end and in the centre two 12-pane sashes, the right one smaller. Below, to left, a late C19 wooden bow window flanked to left by a blank window and to right by a mid C20 single-storey corridor linked to the adjoining single-storey additions.

INTERIOR has entrance hall with four reeded doorcases with paterae. Central cantilever stone winder staircase with decorated wrought-iron balustrade and ramped scrolled handrail, lit by a conical skylight. Landing has a moulded elliptical arch with recessed reeded doorcase, and on either side a round-arched doorway. Front ground-floor room has plaster wall panels, enriched frieze and cornice with vine trail, and two reeded doorcases. Classical marble fireplace with terms and cornice. Rear ground-floor room has reeded cornice with fleurons and on the rear wall an elliptical-arched recess. Plain reeded marble fireplace. Another ground-floor room has Adam-style frieze and cornice with fleurons and cartouches, and two reeded doorcases.

Listing NGR: TA1260932593