Sutton Place, Surrey
| Sutton Place | |
|---|---|
Sutton Place photographed before 1899 | |
| Type | Prodigy house |
| Location | Woking, Surrey |
| Coordinates | 51°16′19″N 0°33′03″W / 51.2720°N 0.5509°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 |
Sutton Place, 3 miles (4.8 km) north-east of Guildford in Surrey, is a large Grade I listed Tudor prodigy house built c. 1525 by Sir Richard Weston (d. 1541), a courtier of Henry VIII.
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, 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. 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.