Sutton Veny House

This is a country house, now operating as a nursing home, rebuilt in 1856 for Joseph Everett. It is constructed from limestone ashlar, with a Welsh slate roof covered in lead flats, and ashlar stacks. The house is in a Regency style. The west front has two storeys and seven windows. The central feature is a two-storey, semi-circular bow topped with a dome, containing a glazed front door flanked by twelve-pane sash windows within a Tuscan colonnade. A string course runs along the first floor, above which are sashes set within moulded stone architraves. The façade incorporates channelled rusticated quoins and a dentilled and modillioned cornice to a panelled blocking course.

The left return features a two-storey bow with sashes, and a single-storey attached garden room with French windows and sashes. The right return presents a garden front, where the central five bays are recessed between two two-bay flanking wings. A verandah supported by Tuscan columns runs across the centre bays, with a central French window and two sashes either side. A first-floor balcony extends over the central bays, carrying five sashes. The flanking wings each have two sashes to both floors. All windows on the garden front are set within moulded architraves with channelled rusticated quoins and a cornice and blocking course consistent with the front elevation.

The rear garden front has an Ionic portico leading up to French windows flanked by eight-pane sashes, and three sashes to the first floor. A two-storey, five-bay service block is located at the rear, with a six-panelled door set within a gabled porch. The service block is of plain ashlar with twelve-pane sashes.

Inside, the house features 17th and 18th century style details. There is a large entrance hall with Ionic columns and round-arched openings, and an early 18th century style staircase with three turned balusters per open string tread, ramped and wreathed handrails. The main ground floor rooms have 17th century style panelling and fireplaces. Other features include six-panelled doors and enriched ceiling cornices. The drawing room has a carved stone fireplace, bolection-moulded panelling, and doors with eight fielded panels.

The house was built on the site of a 17th-century house and was originally known as Greenhill House. It was constructed for Joseph Everett, a local mill owner, to whose memory the Church of St. John was dedicated.