EGERTON HOUSE INCLUDING, TO NORTH AND EAST, HOUSE STABLE YARD AND STAFF ACCOMMODATION AND GARDEN WALLS

EGERTON HOUSE INCLUDING, TO NORTH AND EAST, HOUSE STABLE YARD AND STAFF ACCOMMODATION AND GARDEN WALLS, NEWMARKET ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1127099
Date first listed:: 25-Apr-1984
List Entry Name:: EGERTON HOUSE INCLUDING, TO NORTH AND EAST, HOUSE STABLE YARD AND STAFF ACCOMMODATION AND GARDEN WALLS
Statutory Address:: EGERTON HOUSE INCLUDING, TO NORTH AND EAST, HOUSE STABLE YARD AND STAFF ACCOMMODATION AND GARDEN WALLS, NEWMARKET ROAD

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Date:: 2005-06-09
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1127099
Date first listed:: 25-Apr-1984
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Sep-2003
List Entry Name:: EGERTON HOUSE INCLUDING, TO NORTH AND EAST, HOUSE STABLE YARD AND STAFF ACCOMMODATION AND GARDEN WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: EGERTON HOUSE INCLUDING, TO NORTH AND EAST, HOUSE STABLE YARD AND STAFF ACCOMMODATION AND GARDEN WALLS, NEWMARKET ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: EGERTON HOUSE INCLUDING, TO NORTH AND EAST, HOUSE STABLE YARD AND STAFF ACCOMMODATION AND GARDEN WALLS, NEWMARKET ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Stetchworth
National Grid Reference:: TL 60730 61212

Details

TL66SW 170/2/161 09-SEP-03

STETCHWORTH NEWMARKET ROAD (North side) EGERTON HOUSE including, to north and east, house stable yard and staff accommodation and garden walls GV II

Small country house, built in 1891 for Lord Ellesmere. Painted red brick with applied timber frame decoration to attic floors. Red plain tile roof with patterned ridge tiles. Three tall pilastered red brick stacks. Two storeys and attics. Three-gabled asymmetric facade with boarded and coved eaves and barge boards. Ionic fluted pilasters to recessed main entrance with eliptical arch and key block approached by steps. Half glazed double doors and side lights. Five mullioned and transomed casement windows at each floor level including large two storey staircase window. Two hipped dormer windows. Moulded band between floors and plinth. INTERIOR. Staircase hall with fine original dog leg staircase with balustrade with turned pine balusters. Here and elsewhere fine stone and marble French style fireplaces probably brought in later. In the north east Billiard Room is a fine late C19 coloured marble fireplace and elaborate late C20 trompe l'oeil mural decoration with architectural framework, equestrian paintings and bookcases. Attached to the north and east of the house are high brick garden walls which form an enclosed walled garden to the north and also link to the house's own coach house and stabling block to the north west and another brick walled garden to north. This stable block is U-plan, in similar style to the house, and is of red brick with timber-framed frieze and tops to gables. Plain tile roof with moulded stacks. To left garage accommodation with sliding doors, former stabling to centre under pentice roof and domestic accommodation to right with 3-light oriel window in the end gable and bays to ground floor on the outer wall facing the principal stable quadrangle (qv). Dormers over. The house was designed with the stables and stud farm as part of a planned racehorse training establishment and was leased in 1892 to Richard Marsh, trainer to the Prince of Wales from the beginning of 1893 and later to George V and George VI. Plans and designs for the house and stable block, unsigned, Egerton Stud Estate Office. Onslow, R., Headquarters: A History of Newmarket and its Racing, 1983, p.195-9. Thompson, L., Newmarket from James I to the Present Day, 2000, pp.240-1, 251, 291-2. VCH Vol.VI, p.174. Racing Illustrated, No. 5, 1895.

Listing NGR: TL6073061212

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Legacy System number:: 49240
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Onslow, R , Headquarters: A History of Newmarket and its Racing, (1983)
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 174
Thompson, L , Newmarket from James I to the Present Day, (2000), 240-1,251
'Racing Illustrated' in Racing Illustrated, , Vol. 5, (1895)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.