Sutton Hall

SUTTON-UNDER-WHITESTONECLIFFE MAIN STREET SE 4882 - 4982 (NORTH SIDE) 10/36 SUTTON HALL 1.5.52 GV II House, now with time-share apartments. 1700 with C19 alterations, early C20 enlargements, and alterations 1960s and 1980s. Brown sandstone ashlar with grey ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. 2 Storeys, 3:2:3:2 bays. In classical style. Chamfered plinth; rusticated quoins; cavelto-moulded architraves; lst- floor and eaves bands; modillion cornice. Symmetrical 7-bay facade with 2 central bays recessed and 3-bay block projecting forward on left. 7-bay block has central C20 glazed door with glazing bars and overlight in eaved architrave with keystone and pulvinated frieze inside added pedimented porch with similar architrave. Above it on 1st floor is a keyed bulls-eye window. Left-hand block has steps up to central French window. Windows are 18-pane sashes apart from the C20 18-pane casements flanking porch and the unequally-hung 15-pane sashes on the ground-floor of bays 4 and 5 and 9 and 10. Hipped roofs with rendered stacks. Right return: 4 bays. Truncated ballroom on right, which formerly projected forward, now has a projecting ground-floor bay with 2 tall unequally-hung 15-pane sashes in keyed architraves, and above it a French window and 12-pane sash. The central bays each have a doorway with architraved window above. The left bay has a projecting bay to each floor, smaller on 1st floor, with Tuscan pilasters and two 12-pane sashes to each floor. Interior: the 7-bay block has in the ballroom (rear right) an egg-and-dart-moulded dado rail, C18 Adamesque palmette frieze to two walls, a Venetian-style niche with decorative-panelled cupboards below glass-fronted cabinets; and a panel-soffited beam; the central entrance and stair hall has a wooden open-string stair with ramped moulded handrail, fluted newel and 2 carved balusters per tread, the balustrade continuing across lst-floor gallery; the front rooms to either side on each floor have panelled dados and wall panelling, the lst-floor right-hand room having fluted pilasters supporting the moulded cornice and a bolection-moulded fireplace surroun to a later cast-iron ogee-arched grate. The house was the seat of the Smyth family until 1766 when they acquired Kirby Knowle Castle (New Building), Kirby Knowle (q.v.). W. Grainge, The Vale of Mowbray: an historical and topographical account of Thirsk and its Neighbourhood (1859), p.220. History held at Sutton Hall.

Listing NGR: SE4829082620