Sutton House

A unique survival in London's East End, Sutton House was built in 1535 by Sir Ralph Sadleir, a rising star at the court of Henry VIII.

The House became home to successive merchants, Huguenot silk-weavers, Victorian schoolmistresses and Edwardian clergy and, although altered over the years, remains an essentially Tudor house. Oak-panelled rooms and carved fireplaces survive intact and an exhibition tells the history of the house and its former occupants.