EAST SUTTON PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1084345
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: EAST SUTTON PARK
Statutory Address:: EAST SUTTON PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1084345
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: EAST SUTTON PARK
Statutory Address 1:: EAST SUTTON PARK

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: EAST SUTTON PARK

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:: East Sutton
National Grid Reference:: TQ 82793 49475

Details

EAST SUTTON TQ 828 495 5/56 East Sutton Park GV II

Country house, now prison and borstal. Circa 1570, with C18 addition. Mid C19 (probably late 1830s) alterations and extensions by C.J. Richardson (J. Newman, Buildings of England Series, West Kent and the Weald, 1980). Restored 1980s. Red brick in English bond with plain tile roof. H-plan with further long wing projecting forwards to right, touching main range only at corner. 2 storeys, attics and basement on coursed galletted stone plinth. Moulded strong course returning along right wing. Brick-coped gable and parapet to each short projecting bay of south front and to central projecting 2-storey porch, with cut brick finial to each gable. 3 gables with kneelers and intermediate gables to west front, and one gable to south end, of long right wing, also with cut brick finials. All gables and finials rebuilt in 1980s. Various groups of corbelled brick stacks, some with fillets, some octagonal. Regular fenestration of C19 and C20 mullioned and transomed windows; 3-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window to each gable, except 2-light to porch; 6-light mullioned and transomed window to each outer bay; one cross window to porch and one flanking it each side. 6 cross windows to west front of long right wing. Half-glazed door to porch, up 3 steps, with C19 panelled architrave. Early C17 castellated rainwater heads. C18 two-storey canted bay to left in similar style but in chequered red and grey brick. Mid C19 additions to rear and service ranges to east, also in similar style. Interior: Hall screen with giant pilasters and enriched frieze, dated 1570. Four-centred arched C16 moulded stone fireplace to hall with carved spandrels, and wooden overmantel incorporating date 1837. Similar C16 fireplace in room to left (west) of hall. C19 work includes ceiling, screen, doorcase and fireplaces in Music Room, plaster ceiling and stone fireplace to Dining Room, fireplace and overmantel to staircase room, staircase, and armorial glass in stair window. Owned 1629-1653 by Sir Robert Filmer, author of "Patriarcha". (Country Life, May 12th 1906. Collective authorship, A Topography of Maidstone and its Environs, 1839.)

Listing NGR: TQ8297348410

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 174073
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1980)
'Country Life' in 12 May, (1906)
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Title: A Topography of Maidstone and its Environs Source Date: 1839 Author: Publisher: Surveyor:

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.