SEFTON LODGE

SEFTON LODGE, 8, BURY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388305
Date first listed:: 06-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: SEFTON LODGE
Statutory Address:: SEFTON LODGE, 8, BURY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388305
Date first listed:: 06-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: SEFTON LODGE
Statutory Address 1:: SEFTON LODGE, 8, BURY ROAD

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.

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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:: SEFTON LODGE, 8, BURY ROAD

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Newmarket
National Grid Reference:: TL6492163882

Details

TL 6463 BURY ROAD 177/7/10025 No.8, Sefton lodge

GV II

Large house situated near to Sefton Lodge Stables and Cottage [qv}. Dated 1872 on plaque above doorway on south east side of house. Probably by William Young for C.J.Lefrevre, racehorse owner, in a picturesque Italian style. Additions after c1883 in a similar style by Young for Caroline, Duchess of Montrose, and her second husband W.S.Crawfurd; wings added to main block in C20 for H.J.Joel mostly demolished 1995; other minor and C20 additions and alterations. Gault brick with bright red brick dressings and dressed stone details; low-pitched hipped, gabled, and lean-to slate roofs, the wide verges and eaves to the roofs over the main block supported on shaped timber brackets set on stone corbels; many tall brick stacks with offset moulded bases and cornices; ceramic chimney pots. PLAN: an irregular double depth block; on the north west side the entrance porch flanked by later C19 single storey wings; the garden front, facing south west above a raised, paved terrace has two canted bays to left, and to right the flank of a long wing, set against the wing's gable end a large canted bay; on north east side a c20 extension. EXTERIOR: two storeys, minor single storey wings and projections, cellar. On the north west front to right the entrance porch, with lean-to roof, flanked by later C19, single storey, front-gabled wings with offset plinths faced in decorative patterns in red brick; flight of stone steps to porch with doorway and sidelights set in timber frame. INTERIOR: main block of house contains open well staircase with curtail step supporting a richly moulded cast iron newel, two balusters to each tread cut to elaborate, contrasting profiles, and swept mahogany handrail; other joinery in reception rooms include timber chimney pieces elaborately carved in early C18 style and possibly brought in, moulded window and door architraves, panelled mahogany doors with brass furniture, and moulded plaster ceiling cornices. In the drawing room a moulded plaster ceiling in Elizabethan style. HISTORY: Following completion of the Lodge and Stables, then called Bellevue, C.J.Lefevre set a record in 1873 as a racehorse owner by winning a total of 110 races in the racing season. In 1883 the lease of the property was assigned to Stirling Crawfurd, the second husband of Caroline, Duchess of Montrose, a notable racehorse owner and patroness of horse racing. She and Stirling Crawfurd, also a racehorse owner, occupied the Lodge, and their horses, previously trained at Bedford Lodge Stables, were installed in the Stables. The whole establishment was re-named "Sefton" after Crawfurd's Derby winner of 1878. From 1905 to 1982 the property was owned by the members of the Joel family as a base for their horse racing interests in Newmarket. As a group, Sefton Lodge and Sefton Lodge Stables and Cottage (qv) are the best example of a C19 horse racing establishment in Newmarket designed to accommodate and train only the horses belonging to the resident owner.

Listing NGR: TL6492163882

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Legacy System number:: 476310
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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