| 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 |
  Location of Sutton Place in Surrey | |
Sutton Place, 3 miles (4.8 km) north-east[n 1] of Guildford in Surrey, is a large Grade I listed[1] Tudor prodigy house built c. 1525[2] 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,[3] 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.[4] 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.
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- ^ Historic England. "Sutton Place including the service courtyard (1236810)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- ^ Harrison, F.(1893) estimates after much research 1523-25 and must be taken as most reliable; Manning, vol. 1, p. 136, gives 1529-30; Aubrey, History of Surrey, 1673, vol.3, p. 228, gives 1521
- ^ Guinness Book of Records, 1966, p. 229
- ^ Times, The Sunday (19 February 2024). "Alisher Usmanov net worth – Sunday Times Rich List 2022". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 19 February 2024.