Saturday 17 June 2023, 2.30pm
Stutton Hall IP9 2TQ
By kind permission of Henry and Sarah Strutt, who will give us an introductory greeting.
Visit limited to 40 people; members £12, guests £15, proceeds shared by the SGT and Stutton Church.Tea afterwards.
In a wonderful position overlooking the Stour estuary, Stutton Hall is a Grade II* house, that was built in the mid-16th -century for Sir John Jermy, and altered and extended in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for James Fison and his wife Lucy, ancestors of the present owners. A long, tree-lined, Walk leads to a brick-walled forecourt with an ornamental Tudor gateway decorated with pinnacles and domes (see the cover). The Fisons developed the gardens to the south of the house with their notable topiarised yews, and also added the trees to the Walk, but their parterres within the forecourt were lost in the ‘dig for victory’ days of World War II.