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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Overview
- 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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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127099
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Sept-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
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 49240
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 174
Onslow, R, Headquarters: A History of Newmarket and its Racing, (1983)
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.
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