Building record 1542/1/1 - Sutton Hall

A former country house (now a hotel) dating from the mid seventeenth century, with eighteenth century alterations and additions. The building is timber framed with rendered infill & coursed rubble and a stone-slate roof. There is a seventeenth century wing with herringbone framing with figures at corners supporting jettied 1st floor. This wing has moulded stone band at ground floor level. Full architectural description (1). Sutton Hall contains the remains of the old timber and plaster building which formerly occupied the site and which is mentioned in a will of 1536 (2). Sutton Hall may originally have been a foresters lodge (3). A U shaped sixteenth or seventeenth century house. The right hand gable is timber framed with a jetty supported on carved wooden figures, one a warrior in scale armour. The left hand gable is of stone. In the centre is the former great hall, with its original entrance passage (5).

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 58635 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

<2> Earwaker, J P, 1877-1880, East Cheshire Past & Present, 2/1880/443 (Y) (Book). SCH1080.

<3> Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 1883 -, Transactions of the Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 20/24 Harrison W 1902 (Journal/Periodical). SCH3293.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ97SW15/1964 (Index). SCH2487.

<5> de Figueiredo P & Treuherz J, 1988, Cheshire Country Houses, p.273-4 (Book). SCH785.