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Sutton Court
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Southetoun
In the civil parish of Stowey Sutton.
In the historic county of Somerset (Modern Authority of Bath and North East Somerset, 1974 county of Avon).
Former fortified manor, now country house. Early C14 with additions and alterations in c.1450, 1558, c.1700 and an extensive restructuring and restoration by T.H. Wyatt in 1858-60. Squared and coursed sandstone rubble throughout with freestone and ashlar dressings, copings, slate roofs. North front comprises a central 3 storey C14 pele tower with taller circular stair turret and 2 storey ranges linking it to 1558 'Bess of Hardwick Building' to the left and a 4-bay 1858- 60 servants' wing of 3 storeys to the right. Windows to pele tower and right hand linking range are C15 of 2 cusped lights with hoodmoulds, some renewed, some relocated from other areas. 1858-60 doorway to tower. Windows to left hand linking range and 'Hardwick Building' are 4 and 6-light chamfered mullions. 2 storey 'Hardwick' range has diagonal offset buttresses. C18 battlements to pele tower, tall octagonal ashlar stacks. Manor built by William de Sutton, Elizabeth Hardwick, Lady St. Loe owned it in 1558 and the Wyatt restoration and rebuilding was carried out for Sir Edward Strachey.
This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.
This site is a
Grade 2* listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 32831)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is ST59665045
PastScape number;
198045
Books
- Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p224
Dunning, Robert, 1995, Somerset Castles (Somerset Books) p66
Pevsner, N., 1958, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol (Harmondsworth) p267
Collinson, J., 1791, The History and Antiquities of Somersetshire
Journal Articles
- Country Life, 1910 Vol27 p126-131
Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
- Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p429
Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1910, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (Bell and Sons; London) Vol5 p103
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