Sutton Place, Tudor country house in Woking, England.

Sutton Place is a red-brick Tudor house near Guildford in Surrey, built around a courtyard of which the northern wing was demolished in 1782, leaving two flanking wings that open eastwards in a U-shape. Its facade mixes brick with moulded terracotta, including a panel of amorini above the arched wooden door and a polygonal stone turret on the left.

Sir Richard Weston, a courtier to Henry VIII, had the house built in 1525, bringing together medieval English construction with Italian Renaissance ideas. Later owners added gardens and parkland over the centuries, shaping the grounds around the property.

The name Sutton is not a family name but the village where the house stands. Sir Richard Weston's rebus, a barrel with concave ends, appears in the terracotta, a pun on the last syllable of his surname. The panel of amorini above the door was a deliberate message of peace and play.

The property sits near the A3, linking London to Portsmouth, and brick lodges in Tudor style mark the entrance to an oak-lined driveway. The approach crosses the River Wey and passes through open parkland before reaching the main building.

The ground floor sits directly at soil level without entrance steps, an unusual design choice for the period. Landscape architect Geoffrey Jellicoe created new gardens in the 1980s, bringing modern elements into the old parkland.