[1] The Victorian Gothic house was built in 1866 by Alfred Waterhouse for the Quaker industrialist and member of parliament, Joseph Pease.
[2] The house and stable block were set in 113 hectares (280 acres) of parkland;[2] laid out by James Pulham the estate included a kitchen garden, an exotic fernery, shrubbery, waterfalls, streams and bridges.
[7] During the Spanish Civil War, Ruth Pennyman of Ormesby Hall contacted Alfred Pease to request the use of Hutton Hall to house Spanish nuns and Basque refugees;[3][7] the first 20 children arrived on 1 July 1937.
[4] The two-storey red brick building has stone dressings and slate roofs.
[1] On the east side is a conservatory which has an internal arcade of arches on flute columns below a parapet.