Sutton Court
Manor · Bristol · Bristol
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Sutton Court began in 1310 as a fortified manor house, its peel-like tower and castellated wall dating from that build. Bess of Hardwick added the north range in 1558 during her marriage to Sir William St Loe, and the Strachey family lived here from 1858 until 1987 after T.H. Wyatt's Victorian restoration.
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Sutton Court is an English house remodelled by Thomas Henry Wyatt in the 1850s from a manor house built in the 15th and 16th centuries around a 14th-century fortified pele tower and surrounding buildings. The house has been designated as Grade II* listed building. The house is at Stowey in the Chew Valley in an area of Somerset now part of Bath and North East Somerset and near to the village of Bishop Sutton. The house is surrounded by an extensive estate laid out as a ferme ornée, part of which is now the Folly Farm nature reserve. The estate is boarded by the villages of Chew Magna to the north, Cholwell to the south, Clutton to the east and the reservoir Chew Valley Lake to the west. Since the early modern period the house has been the country seat of several prominent families including the St Loes, one of whom married Bess of Hardwick. They lived at Sutton Court and expanded the property in the second half of the 16th century. Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries it was owned by the Strachey baronets and their descendants until it was sold in 1987 and converted into apartments. In the early 1980s the house was used as a film location for the BBC Look and Read series Dark Towers...
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- Why stop at Sutton Court on a bike ride?
- Sutton Court began in 1310 as a fortified manor house, its peel-like tower and castellated wall dating from that build. Bess of Hardwick added the north range in 1558 during her marriage to Sir William St Loe, and the Strachey family lived here from 1858 until 1987 after T.H. Wyatt's Victorian restoration.
- Where is Sutton Court?
- Sutton Court is in Bristol, Bristol (United Kingdom).