Hutton House

Hutton House is a house dated 1746 on its waterhead, with 19th and 20th century alterations and extensions. It is constructed in red brick laid in Flemish bond, with a peg-tiled mansard roof and gable end stacks.

The building displays an L-shaped plan of two parallel ranges and one right-angled range, which was infilled in the 20th century to create a rectangular outline. The principal south elevation is two storeys with attic, arranged as a 5-window range. This front features rusticated brick quoins, a parapet with coping above a brick cornice, and a central wooden Tuscan doorcase with columns supporting a triglyph frieze and dentilled pediment. The door has been reworked with a central glazed panel. Flanking the doorcase are 19th-century 3-cant bay windows with cornices, parapets and coping, each containing horned sash windows. The first floor has 5 sash windows with deep exposed sash boxes; the central window has 4x4 pane glazing bars while the others have a single vertical glazing bar. Three gabled dormer windows project from the attic. A sun fire insurance mark is visible on the front.

The north elevation reveals the complex construction history: the rear shows two parallel ranges, with the 19th-century build lower than the 18th-century roof. A mansard gable end of the return eighteenth-century wing is visible with a central stack on the west side. A 19th-century single-storey building aligned north-south is linked to the east side, with a peg-tiled roof and mainly rendered walls. An oven and stack, both external, stand at the north gable end. The ground floor of the house and west wing have been obscured by 20th-century work of no special interest, which is not included in this listing. The 19th-century range features central hips to the roof to allow a sight line through from a hip-roofed dormer in the 18th-century attic, and a hipped dormer to the east side of the mansard roof of the west range. The first floor of the 19th-century range is rendered in pebble dash with a simple sash window. A round-headed sash stair window with broad central and narrow margin panes is situated to the west.

The east end elevation displays the principal 18th-century mansard gable with a lesser 19th-century gable at the rear with shaped coping. A central stack stands on both. A 2-storey 4-window range is arranged below, with segmental arched heads. Three windows have 2x4 pane glazing bars and one has replaced horned sashes; four blind windows also appear. A waterhead dated 1746 with initials D-D M-D is mounted here.

The west end elevation has a mansard gable end to the south with a central stack, a string course and parapet above the first floor of the west wing. The fenestration is irregular due to internal alterations. All window openings have segmental heads; three are blocked in the 18th-century gable end wall. One ground floor window has been moved towards the north and features sash with 2x4 pane glazing bars. The range to the north has one ground and one first-floor window with 5x4 pane glazing bars, with an approximately central doorway raised and cut into a blocked stair window immediately above. The door is 6-panelled with a 3-light fanlight. A 20th-century external stair serves this door. Behind the parapet, one segmental-headed dormer window contains two casement lights and a simple skylight. A dated and initialled waterhead matching that on the front of the 18th-century block is mounted on the east end elevation.

The interior has undergone considerable rebuilding around 1980. The ground floor rooms have been reorganised and no historic features remain. The main stair is of simple open string form with Tuscan newel posts and an elegant shaped handrail with terminal volute; the balusters have turned decoration, matching a stair dado. An elliptical stair arch with keystone and a 5-light fanlight are notable features. Several first-floor rooms retain shallow 18th-century panelling and recessed windows with seats. The back stair was reduced in height during 20th-century alterations and now emerges on the west side through a raised doorway.

An 18th-century garden wall of red brick is attached to the front south-west corner of the house. Standing 1.5 metres high with shaped coping bricks, it curves round to enclose the front garden. The wall comprises a quadrant section including a gateway of 16 metres, a short straight section of 3.2 metres, and a bow of approximately 17 metres. The Flemish bond is somewhat irregular, with a rendered plinth. The coping bricks display different patterns on each side of the gateway: to the north they have roll and hollow mouldings; to the south they are of simple straight coped form. Gate piers are plain with stone caps.

The house, together with its associated stable and coach house, and rear garden wall, form a unified group.