National Horseracing College

The National Horseracing College occupies a stable block originally built in 1855 as part of Rossington Hall. Designed by W.M. Teulon for James Brown MP, the stables are constructed of red brick in English bond, with Welsh slate and graduated green slate roofing. The building has an irregular D-shaped plan, incorporating a central carriage arch, a gabled clock/bell tower, asymmetrical side ranges, and an internal courtyard enclosed by a semi-circular stable range. The design is in the Gothic Revival style.

The main entrance front features a central tower with a moulded, two-centred carriage arch topped with an ashlar clock face within a mullioned and transomed window. A stair turret with slit windows and an octagonal ashlar spirelet adjoins the tower on the right. The tower’s gable incorporates slit windows, shaped kneelers, ashlar copings, and an apex finial. A wooden bell turret with a leaded ogee cupola and weathervane sits atop the ridge. The building’s left range features two gables, one with a dormer window, and a taller hipped-roof range to the rear. A quoined, square-headed window with Tudor-arched lights and trefoil details is found on the right gable, with similar windows on both floors of the adjacent range. The courtyard stables have original boarded stable doors with overlights and four-pane sash windows under a lintel band. These stables are set in a semi-circle, with a carriageway to the right return and feature cogged eaves, a graduated green slate roof with twelve gabled dormers, and top-hung four-pane casements (three of which have been altered).

Inside, the clock in the tower is marked 'Thwaites and Reed/Clerkenwell/1856'. Some stable stalls retain original feeding racks with iron bars and corniced keystones. Two signed and dated drawings relating to the Rossington Hall estate are held in Doncaster Archives.