Sutton House and Breaker's Yard

Over het museum

Sutton House was built in 1534-35 for Ralph Sadler, a courtier who worked for Thomas Cromwell and rose to be Secretary of State to Henry VIII. It is a brick house, an unusual and expensive material in Tudor Hackney, and it is now the oldest house in the borough. Later owners included a London textile merchant and merchants linked to the East India Company, and from the 1650s the building housed schools for girls and boys. The name Sutton House dates only from the 1950s, when the National Trust chose it in honour of Thomas Sutton, the founder of Charterhouse.

In 1891 the two halves of the building were reunited as a church institute for young men. The National Trust bought the house in 1938 with a bequest made in memory of two brothers killed in the First World War, and from 1953 trade-union staff associations used it as offices. After the union left in 1981 the house stood empty, and in 1985 squatters occupied it for a time and turned it into a music and community venue; some of their wall paintings were kept.

A local campaign to save the house led to a restoration that began in 1990, and Sutton House opened to the public in 1994. Visitors see oak-panelled rooms with carved linenfold panelling, a Tudor kitchen, a painted staircase and a courtyard with the only surviving original window, the Armada window. Next door the National Trust bought a former breaker's yard in 2005 and turned it into the Breaker's Yard, a pocket garden that opened in 2014 and features a two-storey caravan sculpture.

Hoogtepunten

• Oldest house in Hackney, built in 1535
• Oak-panelled rooms with linenfold carving
• Painted staircase and Tudor kitchen
• Squatters' wall paintings from the 1980s
• Breaker's Yard garden with a two-storey caravan sculpture

Vaste collectie

• Tudor house – Rooms with original oak panelling, carved fireplaces and a painted staircase, with furnishings that show how the house was used over five centuries.

Opgericht

1994

Beheerder

National Trust

Toegangsprijzen & kortingen

Het museum heeft hierover geen informatie gepubliceerd.

Toegankelijkheid

• Deels rolstoeltoegankelijk
• Lift: niet aanwezig
• Aangepast toilet
• Gehandicaptenparkeerplaats: geen informatie
• Hulphonden welkom
• Tastmodellen / voelbare objecten: geen informatie
• Rondleidingen in gebarentaal: geen informatie
• Informatie in eenvoudige taal: geen informatie
• Audiodescriptie: geen informatie

Wheelchair access is on the ground floor only, and the upper floors are reached by stairs. An adapted toilet is near the entrance. There is a vehicle drop-off point, ramped access or slopes, an induction loop, large-print guides and wheelchairs to borrow. Only assistance dogs are allowed. An AccessAble access guide is available.

Kinderen & gezin

Erg geschikt voor kinderen & gezinnen

• Gezinsrondleidingen & workshops

Family activities and events are often held during the year, particularly around Easter, Halloween and Christmas. The Breaker's Yard garden is described as playful.

Bereikbaarheid & parkeren

The house is the first on the right at the start of Homerton High Street, reached via Sutton Place. National Cycle Network route 1 is about 1¼ miles away.

Service & horeca

The pages do not mention a café or shop at the property.

Evenementen & zaalverhuur

• Bruiloften / trouwceremonies

The house is licensed for civil weddings.

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