Sudbury House

Sudbury House is an early 18th-century rubble stone house with earlier elements, altered around 1815 to 1820. It has an L-shaped plan with a short rear west wing and features two stories plus an attic, all topped with stone tiled roofs. The main range has two ashlar corniced ridge stacks and one eaves stack on the west side, with the roof hipped at the west angle. During the 1815 to 1820 alterations, all but the eastern end was refronted and the entire range was rendered.

The eastern section has two windows with thick glazing bars on the ground floor. The main section boasts two large full-height curved bows with curved stone tiled roofs and triple sash windows featuring glazing bars. A central arched doorcase with a reeded surround and fluted half-columns on each side frames a six-panel door topped with a radiating bar fanlight. In front, there is a stone porch supported by six Tuscan columns, with the central pair projecting and canted. Modern glazing fills the spaces between the columns.

At the east end of the main range, there is an early 19th-century one-window range with 16-pane sash windows and a stone chimney on the east wall, which is brick. The west side features a two-window range with a roof hipped to the rear, possibly indicating a former stair gable, and includes one curved head dormer. Above, there are glazing bar sash windows, while below, round arched windows are situated behind a 20th-century verandah. The rear is made of rubble stone and has two hipped dormers, with a range of altered cross windows on the first floor; the ground floor on the west side is obscured by a two-storey rear addition from around 1920.

To the east side, there is a low two-storey early 19th-century red brick range with a stone tiled roof, featuring some iron-framed casements and a small wooden oriel. Inside, early 19th-century rooms have been created within the older structure, preserving fielded panelled doors, moulded cornices, chamfered beams, and a length of fielded panelling in an upstairs room behind a later wall. The central full-height staircase hall has a staircase wrapping around three sides, adorned with early 19th-century plaster mouldings. There are plank doors leading to the attic, and the roof features tie-beam and collar trusses. Records indicate the house dates back to 1703 and it is named after Samuel Sadbury, who was the owner around 1740.