Gatehouse To Sutton Court

The gatehouse to Sutton Court, originally a clergy house, was built in 1825 and is attributed to Rev. Charles Lacy, who was the incumbent from 1819 to 1839 and funded its construction. The east bay was removed around 1970. This gatehouse is made of red brick with stone and stucco dressings, topped with a steep old red tile roof. It features a tall single-storey structure designed in a convincing Tudor style, with a large gabled four-centred arched gateway. Above the gateway are blank stone shields in a panel, and it is flanked by octagonal crenellated turrets. The jamb mouldings remain unbroken at the springing of the arch, and a plinth and hoodmould to the arch extend as strings across the turrets. The gables at both the front and rear have raking brick coping.

Inside, the square passageway has a moulded rib cross-vault with a floral boss at the center and at the ends of the ribs, supported by corner corbels. The west wall features elaborate wooden traceried double doors. An 1832 drawing by Buckley shows the gateway in the middle of a three-bay range, but the east bay is now missing. The remaining west bay includes a projecting west gable chimney, a blank labelled recess on the south side, and a large three-light mullioned and transomed labelled window on the north side. There is also a west-end door beneath a tiled lean-to hood supported by elaborately cusped brackets. The gabled north side of the gateway has simpler mouldings and stepped brick buttresses with tumbled offsets.