Suttons Farmhouse

Suttons Farmhouse is a late 16th-century farmhouse featuring two storeys and a three-cell plan, with an additional cell located behind the parlour. The structure is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a plain-tiled roof that has axial and gable chimneys made of red brick. The building includes late 18th-century three-light casement windows and a 20th-century boarded entrance door. Inside, there is an original staircase made of triangular blocks pegged to bearers, situated within what would typically be a cross-passage. The exposed timber-framing showcases ovolo-moulded beams on the first floor. Notably, there is an original smoke-curing chamber in the attic, linked to the axial chimney, which is a unique example in Suffolk. Historical records indicate that in the will of John Sutton from 1696, the farm was entrusted to maintain six poor religious men and six poor boys in Bury St. Edmunds.