Sudbury Hall

House in Derbyshire, England, 7 km/4 mi east of Uttoxeter. It was begun around 1613 but not completed until much later in the century. It is built of diaper brick (a design using bricks of different colours), and contains plaster ceilings painted by Louis Laguerre (1663–1721), a staircase carved by Edward Pierce (1630–1695), and an overmantel by Grinling Gibbons. Sudbury Hall was transferred to the National Trust through the Treasury in 1967.