Entrance Gateway and Gates at NO.44 (Abington Place Stables)
ENTRANCE GATEWAY AND GATES AT NO.44 (ABINGTON PLACE STABLES), BURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392766
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-2006
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Gateway and Gates at NO.44 (Abington Place Stables)
- Statutory Address:
- ENTRANCE GATEWAY AND GATES AT NO.44 (ABINGTON PLACE STABLES), BURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392766
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-2006
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Gateway and Gates at NO.44 (Abington Place Stables)
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENTRANCE GATEWAY AND GATES AT NO.44 (ABINGTON PLACE STABLES), BURY ROAD
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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:
- ENTRANCE GATEWAY AND GATES AT NO.44 (ABINGTON PLACE STABLES), 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:
- TL 65406 64504
Details
NEWMARKET
TL66SW BURY ROAD 177-1/0/9 (Southeast side) 30-OCT-06 Entrance gateway and gates at No.44 (A bington Place Stables)
GV II Gateway and gates at entrance to driveway at Abington Place Stables and Trainer's House, Bury Road [qv]. 1895. By John Flatman in a Northern Renaissance style, possibly inspired by late C16 or early C17 designs for triumphal arches, for Martin Gurry, racehorse trainer. Red brick with red and yellow terra cotta dressings, stone dressings, and pair of elaborate wrought iron gates.
PLAN: recessed archway flanked by quadrant walls stopped at the outer ends by square piers supporting lamps.
ELEVATION: central archway on offset plinth with moulded terra cotta jambs and basket arch with stone voussoirs and raised and dropped keystone. The keystone is carved in relief to front and rear with monogram MG in a frame, and the archway is framed by pilasters on moulded bases, and with a panel of moulded foliage on the face of each pilaster. The entablature, which breaks forward over each pair of pilasters, has its frieze decorated with festoons over a dentil string course, and cornice with a dentil moulding. The parapet above the entablature has moulded capping and a pier block capped by a ball finial above each pilaster, with blind balustrading at either end; above the parapet between the finials a shallow, stone coped, Flemish gable with crowning finial set on a moulded base block. In each of the outer faces of the flanking quadrant walls recessed panels in moulded frames; the outer piers in banded rustication with stone pyramidal caps, and on each cap a glazed, metal-framed, gas lantern with ornamental cresting and finial. In the archway a pair of wrought iron gates of scroll pattern enriched with leaves.
HISTORY: the gateway was built for Martin Gurry following the success of `La Sagesse', a horse he trained for Sir James Miller which won The Oaks at Epsom in 1895.
REFERENCES: Forest Heath District Council: Newmarket Horse Racing Training Yards: 1992: 85.
Brown, Haward and Kindred: Dictionary of Architects of Suffolk Buildings 1800-1914: Ipswich: 1991: 107.
Flatman, J: Drawings: 1895: Forest Heath Drawings Archive H.60.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 505810
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newmarket Horse Racing Training Yards, (1992), 85
Brown, , Kindred, , Dictionary of Suffolk Architects 1800-1914, (1988), 107
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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