Sutton Hall

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TL 5850 11/32

BALSHAM WEST WRATTING ROAD (west side) No 13 (Sutton Hall)

(Formerly listed as No 19 (Sutton Hall))

GV II House, formerly the rectory. 1839-43 by J Wild for the Sutton family. Knapped flint and gault brick dressings. Tiled roofs with bargeboarded gables and stacks of octagonal shafts on bases with stepped offsets. Principal family and guest block at south end with service end and parish room at north end. Tudor Gothic style. Cross frame casements with ovolo mullions and chamfered surrounds of gault brick. Contemporary gabled porch in angle on east front with doorway in four centred double recessed arch. Double doors. Charge of the Sutton family above the door and shield of arms in gable on garden front.

Interior: original plan retained. Early C18 paving in hall. Two storey hall has main staircase with column-on-vase balusters and moulded rail. Marble fireplaces to ground floor rooms including one with jewelled work. The house has a cellar lined with red brick work which may date from the earlier house on the site.

Listing NGR: TL5887050825