Sutton Court: Southetown

PRIVATE PROPERTY

• Bishop’s Sutton, Somerset
• Grade II Listed Building.

Fortified manor house built on the site of a fourteenth century castle and incorporates the original Pele tower into the north front.

14^th C                            Built.

1450                              Altered and extended.

1558                              Altered and extended for Elizabeth (Bess) Hardwick by William de Sutton.

1558                              c: Bess of Hardwick and Sir William St. Loe, her third husband, added the north wing.

1608                              Bess of Hardwick died and her son, Charles Cavendish inherited.

1650-1700                     c: Owned by Richard Jones and his son, Sir William Jones, Attorney General of England.

1700                              c: Altered and extended.

18^th C                            Battlements added to the pele tower.

1858-1860                     Restored by T. H. Wyatt.

1800                              c: Owned by the Strachey family.

1965                              Field Investigation.

20^th C                            Apartments.