Sutton Place, Surrey
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Sutton Place, 3 miles (4.8 km) north-east[n 1] of Guildford in Surrey, is a large Grade I listed[1] Tudor prodigy house built c. 1525[2] by Sir Richard Weston (d. 1541), a courtier of Henry VIII.
Sutton Place | |
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Type | Prodigy house |
Location | Woking, Surrey |
Coordinates | 51°16′19″N 0°33′03″W |
Built | c.1525 |
Architectural style(s) | Tudor |
Owner | Discretionary irrevocable Trust founded by Alisher Usmanov |
Listed Building – Grade I | |
Official name | Sutton Place including the service courtyard |
Designated | 22 July 1953 |
Reference no. | 1236810 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Entrance lodge and gates to Sutton Place |
Designated | 13 January 1972 |
Reference no. | 1294915 |
It is of importance to art history in showing some of the earliest traces of Italianate Renaissance design elements in English architecture. In modern times, the estate has had a series of wealthy owners, initially J. Paul Getty, then the world's richest private citizen,[3] who spent the last 17 years of his life there. It is currently owned by a discretionary irrevocable trust created by an Uzbek Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov.[4] A definitive history of the house and manor, first published in 1893, was written by Frederic Harrison (d. 1923), jurist and historian, whose father had acquired the lease in 1874.