Description

This List entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 30/03/2017

TA 13 SW,
680-1/5/460

KINGSTON UPON HULL,
SALTSHOUSE ROAD, Sutton (South West side),
Sutton Grange

Also known as: Dunbar House SALTSHOUSE ROAD Sutton.

13/10/52

II

House, now old people's home. Built c1815 for George Alder,
Hull merchant, converted 1951, with
mid C20 rear additions. Yellow brick with painted ashlar
dressings and hipped Westmorland slate roof with single ridge
and three side wall stacks. Main fronts have plinth, sill bands,
dentillated eaves, cornice and blocking. Two storeys; 3x5
windows. Windows are glazing bar sashes, mainly with splayed
lintels.
Entrance front has corner pilasters and a projecting single
bay centre with a 12-pane sash. On either side, a similar
window. Below, steps to tetrastyle Greek Doric portico with
full entablature covering a fielded panelled margin stile door
with overlight. On either side, a tall 15-pane sash with
round-arched fan head. To left, a recessed rear wing with a
single 9-pane sash on each floor.
Garden front, to south, has a 3-bay projecting centre with a
central 12-pane sash with moulded surround and corbelled sill.
On either side, a similar sash, and beyond again, single
sashes. Below the windows, recessed panels, the central one
with swags. Below, 15-pane sashes, the central one with
moulded surround and pediment on scroll brackets and the
fourth from left altered to form a French window. Outside, a
narrow stone terrace carried on segmental arches, with curved
steps at each end and a wrought-iron handrail with cast-iron
ornament.
Left return, to north, has a round-headed central window. To
left, a plain sash flanked by single 12-pane sashes. Central
pedimented doorcase similar to garden front. To right, a
2-storey hipped rear wing.
Rear elevation, to east, has a blank window at each end and in
the centre two 12-pane sashes, the right one smaller. Below,
to left, a late C19 wooden bow window flanked to left by a
blank window and to right by a mid C20 single-storey corridor
linked to the adjoining single-storey additions.

INTERIOR has entrance hall with four reeded doorcases with
paterae. Central cantilever stone winder staircase with
decorated wrought-iron balustrade and ramped scrolled
handrail, lit by a conical skylight. Landing has a moulded
elliptical arch with recessed reeded doorcase, and on either
side a round-arched doorway. Front ground-floor room has
plaster wall panels, enriched frieze and cornice with vine
trail, and two reeded doorcases. Classical marble fireplace with
terms and cornice. Rear ground-floor room has reeded cornice
with fleurons and on the rear wall an elliptical-arched
recess. Plain reeded marble fireplace. Another ground-floor
room has Adam-style frieze and cornice with fleurons and
cartouches, and two reeded doorcases.

Listing NGR: TA1260932593

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513683

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)