Listed Building: WOOD HALL (285509)

SUTTON WOOD HALL DRIVE TM 34 SE (South side) 10/143 Wood Hall (formerly 16/3/66 listed as Sutton Hall Farmhouse) GV II* Country house. Dated on eastern porch 1566 and 1903. The architect of the early C20 portion was W. Kemp (architectural drawing in entrance hall). Red English bond brick with plain tile roof. C16 H-shaped plan still showing on the garden front considerably enlarged in loosely Tudor style early this century to east and north fronts. Garden front (formerly entrance front): the E-shaped portion to right of 1566 with porch and fenestration of 1903 and a service wing to left also of c.1903. The central porch is of rubbed brick at ground floor level. Four-centered central arch with moulded surround, including shafts with moulded caps and bases. To the corners are polygonal buttresses which die back into the corners at ground floor level via domed caps. Single-light windows to the flanks. Four-light window to first floor with brick surround and ovolo- moulded mullions and transom. Circular recessed panel with hood mould to the gable which has a caping of moulded brick. Five-light windows to either side of this at ground floor level with ovolo-moulded surrounds. Similar 4-light windows above these at first floor level. All the windows having square hood moulds. The projecting lateral wings have a similar arrangement of a 5-light window to ground floor and 4-light to first floor with 3-light windows to the gables without transoms. The right hand gable has brick tumbling, that at left is plain. Three 3-light hipped dormer windows to the attics. Massive stacks to right and left of early C20 date, each having 6 polygonal shafts with moulded caps. Behind the ridge, in the valley of the roofs is an octagonal cupola with tile-hung sides and an octagonal ogee-domed copper cap which has projecting ribs to the corners and a weather-vane above. Late-C19 photographs of this front show it to have had a hipped roof and sash windows with a single-storey porch at ground floor level. However, scars in the present brickwork at either side of several windows show that this fenestration disturbed an earlier pattern of more and smaller windows. Recessed and at left is a further early C20 gabled wing which has a glazed C20 doorway to right at ground floor level with a 2-light overdoor, a cross window to left of this. Four-light window to first floor and a 3-light similar window to the gable, all of these windows having ovolo-moulded surrounds. To left again runs the single- storey service range with a slightly projecting central gable with 2-light windows to right and left with continuous hood-mould. Single-light window above this to the gable. To right of this arrangement is a further single- light window and at left an imposed C20 window with aluminium-framed casement windows within an earlier opening. Gabled slightly-projecting wing to extreme left with 4-light ground floor window and 3-light first floor window, both with ovolo-moulded surround. To the ridge is a square turret with ogee-moulded lead cap with projecting ridges. Right hand flank: Projecting semi-octagonal bay window at right of c.1903 with ashlar surrounds and mullions and transoms. Blank keyed oculi to the front and angles at parapet level. To left of this are a 5-light ground floor and 4- light first floor window with ovolo-moulded surrounds as before. Two 3- light hipped dormers to the attic. Entrance front: Three-bay 3-storey symmetrical arrangement to centre with a projecting single-storey porch to the centre of rubbed brick, similar in form to the ground floor level of the porch wing on the garden front save that it has a battlemented parapet which has at its centre a recessed circular panel with moulded surround bearing a shield with the dates and the initials CQ. To either side of this are a 3-light mullioned and transomed window with 3 similar windows to first floor level above and 3 further similar windows, but without transoms to the gablets at attic level, all having the ovolo-moulded C20 surrounds. To right of this is a 3-light ground floor window with two 2-light windows at first floor level and at right again a 3-storey projecting gabled wing of 1903 with mullioned windows as before. To left of the centre is an early-C20 projecting square bay at ground floor level. To left again is the originally projecting gabled wing, now flush with the imposed work of c.1903. It is now blank but shows scars of earlier windows at ground and first floor levels. C20 chimney stack to apex of gable with 2 polygonal shafts. Interior: Wide corridor of c.1903 now runs along the eastern front of the house, between the two formerly projecting wings. Staircase at left of this with moulded Jacobean balusters and square panelled newel posts with ball finials. Richly moulded Jacobean wood panelling to one ground floor room, perhaps brought from elsewhere with early-C20 richly moulded plaster ceiling. Less elaborate panelling and plasterwork to the drawing room. Listing NGR: TM3110044645