Sutton Park, Yorkshire

View of house from gardens

Sutton Park is an 18th-century Georgian country house situated on the edge of the village of Sutton-on-the-Forest, North Yorkshire, England. It is approximately 10 miles north of York, in the ancient Forest of Galtres. The house, a Grade I listed building, is open to the public for part of the year and is the residence of Sir Reginald Sheffield, 8th Baronet (father of current UK Prime minister's wife Samantha Cameron) and Lady Sheffield.

History

The house was built in 1730 and later altered by Thomas Atkinson for Phillip Harland, who inherited the property in 1750.[1]

The house was purchased by the Sheffield family in 1963 when they relocated from Normanby Hall, North Lincolnshire.[2] The Sheffields relocated pieces of art and furniture from Normanby Hall, the historic seat of their family in north Lincolnshire.[3]

Exterior

Sutton Park is of red brick and is styled as a villa. The main central building is flanked by two wings: on each side, a set of colonnades joins a smaller structure to the central house.[3] Venetian-style windows in the wings look out upon the house's gardens.[3]

Ancestral connection with Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

In March 2015, unpublished photographs from the City of Leeds archives revealed that the panelling and mantelpiece in the study of Sutton Park had been imported from the Morning Room of Potternewton Hall, near Leeds, which was the ancestral estate of Olive Middleton. Olive was the great grandmother of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. The panelling and mantelpiece in the former Middleton room were designed by Henry Flitcroft in the 1720s. Ornate plasterwork features throughout the house. Designed by Cortese, this use of plasterwork is especially prominent in the entrance hall, where the Rococo style predominates, and in the library, where the plasterwork illustrates fruit themes.[3][4][5][6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). Yorkshire: The North Riding: The Buildings of England. ISBN 0-300-09665-8.
  2. ↑ "Welcome to Sutton Park". Retrieved 30 July 2007.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Historic Houses in North Yorkshire: Sutton Park". Retrieved 5 August 2007.
  4. ↑ Laycock, Mike (17 March 2015). "Duchess of Cambridge's links with stately home near York revealed". The Press (York). Retrieved 22 May 2015. Pine panelling from the morning room had then been installed in a room at Sutton Park at Sutton-on-the-Forest, owned by Sir Reginald Sheffield, father of the Prime Minister’s wife, Samantha Cameron. He said the panelling and mantelpiece were saved because they were part of a priceless interior dating from the 1720s, designed by royal architect Henry Flitcroft.
  5. ↑ A photographic Archive of Leeds, Leodis. "Potternewton Hall, Potternewton Lane". UK Gov. City of Leeds. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
  6. ↑ Poole, David (18 March 2015). "Potternewton Hall, Leeds". Heritage Gazette. Retrieved 22 May 2015.

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Coordinates: 54°04′25″N 1°06′37″W / 54.07368°N 1.11030°W / 54.07368; -1.11030

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