Description

SUTTON BONINGTON STATION ROAD
SK 52 NW
(south side)
4/112 The Cedars and
Sutton Fields House
II
House, now 2 houses. 1875. Rock-face ashlar with ashlar
dressings. Slate roof with decorative ridge. Garden/south
front. Decorative eaves band to all but the gabled bays.
Decorative parapet. 2 ridge and 2 lateral ashlar stacks. Set on
a plinth. First floor bands. 2 storeys plus cellar, 10 bays.
the single bays fourth from the right and left slightly project
and are gabled. The outer 2 bays on each side project, are
gabled and are 2 storeys plus garret, with diagonal buttresses.
Rising over the buttresses and supported on decorative corbels
are single small mock turrets with decorative capitals and
conical pinnacles over a decorated band. Cellar with 6 pairs of
pointed arched openings. 2 central pointed arched ashlar
openings each with single Caernarvon arched doorway and trefoil
arched fixed light over. Either side are single tripartite
sashes each sash being Caernarvon arched and flanked by single
colonnettes with decorative capitals. Over is a single shaped
ashlar panel containing single trefoil fixed light over each
outer sash and 3 trefoil fixed ights over the single central
sash, the window on the right lacking trefoils and now with
single casement. Shaped hood moulds and decorative label stops
over. Further left and right are single Caernarvon arched sashes
with single trefoil arched fixed lights over. In the outer 4
bays are single Caernarvon arched sashes flanked by single
colonnettes with decorative capitals each with single arched
ashlar panel over containing single arched fixed light. All
openings, apart from those with hood moulds have polychromatic
flush ashlar arches over. Above are 2 Caernarvon arched sashes.
Either side are single tripartite sashes, each sash flanked by a
single colonnette with decorative capital. The single central
sash with single trefoil fixed ight over and the single outer
sashes with single quatrefoil fixed lights over. The right
window lacking trefoil and now with single casement. Shaped hood
moulds and decorative label stops. To right and left are similar
single Caernarvon arched sashes. In the outer 4 bays are single
Caernarvon arched sashes flanked by single colonnettes with
single ogee arched ashlar panels over each containing single
small trefoil, spandrels with foliate and quatrefoil decoration.
Pointed segmental arched hood moulds with decorative label stops
and single human head finials. Each gable apex with single
Caernarvon arched sash flanked by single similar colonnettes set
into single segmental arched panels with hood moulds and
decorative label stops. Following the line of each gable is a
decorative band forming a decorated segmental arch over each hood
mould, the apex of each decorated with diaper. The right/east
wall with plaque inscribed "W.T. 1875". Rear of Sutton Fields
House with diagonal buttressed gabled porch. The decorated
arched entrance supported each side on 2 colonnettes. Further
decoration to the gable apex. Inner moulded arched doorway
flanked by single colonnettes with foliate decorated capitals.

Listing NGR: SK5001326604

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26551116

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