Wroughton House

This is a mid-18th century house, likely incorporating an earlier structure, that was refronted and altered around 1800, with further changes in the late 19th and 20th centuries. It adjoins Wroughton House Stables on Old Station Road in Newmarket. Originally built of red brick, the house was stuccoed in the early 19th century, though the front was later roughcast in the mid-20th century. The roof is plain-tiled with end gables, a front parapet, coped gables, dormers with flat lead roofs, and gault brick stacks on each gable and three at the rear. A flat-roofed extension sits at the rear.

The house has a single-depth lateral range with a single-depth extension added to the east side of the rear wall. It is two storeys high, with an attic and cellar. The front features giant strip pilasters faced in stucco, supporting a continuous moulded stone string course below a parapet with stone coping. The window placement is irregular. The front door is on the right side and has a rectangular fanlight, a four-panel door with fluted pilasters and moulded caps, and a flat hood supported on console brackets. The ground floor has two windows to the right of the door and four to the left. The first floor has five windows and the attic has five dormers with 20th-century casements. The windows originally had early 19th-century sashes with glazing bars but were replaced around 1985 with metal-framed, side-hung, plain sashes.

Inside, a late 19th-century staircase features turned balusters. The principal rooms on both floors have boxed beams, which do not correspond to the original 18th-century layout. There is some 18th-century joinery and moulded plaster cornices, and 18th-century doors in the attic. Early 19th-century marble chimney-pieces are in two rooms to the left of the entrance hall. The rear extension, likely a stable range converted in the late 19th century, now serves as service rooms.

The house appeared on John Chapman’s maps of Newmarket in 1768 and 1787, and was probably owned by the Duke of Grafton. Wroughton House was formerly listed together with its stable wing, which is now separately listed.