History
G.W. and J.H. Wade, in Somerset (1929), suggest that Bishop Hooper found asylum here during the Marian Persecutions, around 1550. John Hooper Anglican Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester was concealed in the house in the 1550s.
About 1558, according to a date on a fireplace, Bess of Hardwick and her third husband Sir William St Loe added a north east wing with a parlour and chapel, which includes Tudor buttresses. The house was then left to her son Charles Cavendish.
From about 1650-1700 it was the seat of Richard Jones and his son Sir William Jones, the Attorney General of England. From around 1800 it was the seat of the Strachey family including Richard Strachey and his brother John Strachey, the geologist. Henry Strachey, the 2nd Baronet, became High Sheriff of Somerset in 1832.The London Gazette: no. 18900. pp. 254–255. 6 February 1832. Retrieved 2008-09-21. Much of the house was remodelled in 1858 by Thomas Henry Wyatt.
Life at Sutton Court has been described by John St. Loe Strachey in his autobiographical book The Adventure of Living in 1922.
Tory MEP Charles Strachey, 4th Baron O'Hagan, inherited it in 1973, and sold it in 1987 for conversion into flats.
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