Detail inside Daniel Lobb?s The Grange at Sutton House

Image: © Marathon Taken: 9 Aug 2019

Sutton House was built in 1535 by Sir Ralph Sadleir, Principal Secretary of State to Henry VIIIth, and is the oldest residential building in Hackney.It was bought by the National Trust in 1938 but after the 'Save Sutton House Campaign' stopped the house being turned into luxury flats it was finally opened to the public in 1994. It is now very much a centre of the local community. The National Trust website can be seen at https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/sutton-house-and-breakers-yard and more about its history can be seen at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_House,_London See also https://archaeology-travel.com/england/sutton-house-hackney-london/ and http://www.londonmuseums.org/national-trust-properties/Sutton-House.html The Breaker's Yard to the west of the house was launched in 2014 and has been transformed and added to the house as an open area which is particularly popular with schools - see https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/sutton-house/features/breakers-yard-at-sutton-house- In the yard is Daniel Lobb’s The Grange (1998), a multi-storey caravan sculpture formed from scrap caravans that have been given the interior of a stately home. It has toured with The House of Fairy Tales since 2009 and been enjoyed by thousands. The sculpture is based on Alice in Wonderland "with its distorting interior displacing our expectations".

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