St John'S Jerusalem

St John's Jerusalem is a historic building located on the east side of Main Road in Sutton-at-Hone. It was originally established as a preceptory for the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem in 1199 by Robert de Basing. The main part of the structure, which served as the Chapel of the Preceptory, dates from the 13th century but underwent significant alterations by Edward Hasted, the County Historian, in 1755-1756.

The building has two storeys and attics. The east end is constructed with flints and features two lancet windows on the first floor that illuminate the chapel. To the west of these windows is a flint and stone buttress, followed by a blocked pointed medieval stone doorway and another lancet window. Inside, there is a double piscina. The rest of the original building to the west has been refaced with red brick in the 18th century, featuring four stone lancet windows with wide glazing bars on both the ground and first floors, as well as a doorcase with a Gibbs surround and a pediment above. Four pedimented dormers were added to the original portion in the 19th century, and the roof is tiled.

To the west of the original structure is a late 18th-century addition built on the foundations of a 13th-century tower. This addition is stuccoed and has long and short quoins at its west end, a wooden modillion eaves cornice, one window, and a pedimented dormer. An L-shaped wing in buff brick was added in the 19th century to the northeast.

Inside, the building features a 17th-century kitchen with an inglenook, a main staircase dating from around 1755 with turned balusters, a drawing room with 18th-century panelling and a dado rail, and Mrs Hasted's boudoir from circa 1755, which includes a fireplace, panelling, a Greek key patterned dado rail, and swag ornaments on the window wall. Notably, Abraham Hill, a founder member of the Royal Society, lived here from 1667 to 1721, and Edward Hasted, the historian, resided here from 1757 to 1776.