Construction
Sutton Court is built of squared and coursed sandstone rubble throughout with freestone and ashlar dressings, copings, slate roofs. The north front comprises a central three storey fourteenth century pele tower with a taller circular stair turret and two-storey ranges linking it to the 1558 'Bess of Hardwick Building' to the left and a four bay 1858-1860 servants' wing of three storeys to the right. Windows to the pele tower and right-hand linking range are 15th century, of two cusped lights with hood moulds, some of which have been renewed, and some relocated from other areas. The doorway to the tower dates from 1858-60. The windows to the left-hand linking range and the 'Hardwick Building' are four and six lights, with chamfered mullions. The two storey 'Hardwick' range has diagonal offset buttresses. There are eighteenth-century battlements to the pele tower, with tall octagonal ashlar stacks.
The manor was built by the local mason William de Sutton for Elizabeth Hardwick: during her third marriage Lady St. Loe, as she then was, owned it in 1558. In the 19th century the architect Thomas Henry Wyatt oversaw restoration and rebuilding that was carried out for Sir Edward Strachey.
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