Talk:Sutton Park, North Yorkshire

Original history section

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In the mid-18th century, the earlier Sutton manor passed from the Crown to the Harland family. In 1750, Philip Harland demolished the original building and replaced it with the present house. Building was completed before his death in 1764.

Sutton Park is a well-proportioned, red brick, Palladian house with little ornamentation. It was probably designed by the architect Thomas Atkinson of York. The design shows the clear influence of the fashionable architect James Paine. It is built as a villa, with a five-bay central block set under a large pediment and flanked by lower pavilions. The pavilions have Venetian windows on the garden side, and are joined to the main building by colonnades (later filled in).

The interior is decorated in a richer style, with Rococo plasterwork by Giuseppe Cortese and further embellishment in recent years. The Entrance Hall contains some of the finest plasterwork in the house and displays an early drawing of Buckingham House. The Library has a plasterwork ceiling with fruit motifs and the chimneypiece and bookcases were introduced from Normanby Park. In the Morning Room is early 18th-century wood panelling brought from Potternewton Hall near Leeds by the previous owner.

The main reception rooms face south over the garden and contain English, French, and Dutch furniture and fine porcelain from the Meissen, Chelsea, Bow and Worcester factories, together with early blanc de Chine and Japanese Imari pieces. Some of the finest porcelain is displayed in the Tea Room. The Porcelain Room and the Boudoir contain paintings of 18th-century London by Samuel Scott, the English Canaletto. There is also a Chinese Room with hand-painted wallpaper dating between 1750 and 1770.

Keith D 22:48, 30 July 2007 (UTC)