Sutton Hall
Sutton Hall, 13, West Wratting Road, Balsham, Cambridge, CB21 4DX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127125
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Sutton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- Sutton Hall, 13, West Wratting Road, Balsham, Cambridge, CB21 4DX
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127125
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Sutton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- Sutton Hall, 13, West Wratting Road, Balsham, Cambridge, CB21 4DX
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Sutton Hall, 13, West Wratting Road, Balsham, Cambridge, CB21 4DX
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Balsham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL5887050825
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 February 2023 to remove superfluous source details and instructions for address amendment from the text and to reformat the text to current standards
TL 5850
11/32
BALSHAM
WEST WRATTING ROAD (west side)
No 13 (Sutton Hall)
(Formerly listed as No 19 (Sutton Hall))
GV
II
House, formerly the rectory. 1839-43 by J Wild for the Sutton family. Knapped flint and gault brick dressings. Tiled roofs with bargeboarded gables and stacks of octagonal shafts on bases with stepped offsets. Principal family and guest block at south end with service end and parish room at north end. Tudor Gothic style. Cross frame casements with ovolo mullions and chamfered surrounds of gault brick. Contemporary gabled porch in angle on east front with doorway in four centred double recessed arch. Double doors. Charge of the Sutton family above the door and shield of arms in gable on garden front.
Interior: original plan retained. Early C18 paving in hall. Two storey hall has main staircase with column-on-vase balusters and moulded rail. Marble fireplaces to ground floor rooms including one with jewelled work. The house has a cellar lined with red brick work which may date from the earlier house on the site.
Listing NGR: TL5887050825
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51233
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 133
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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