Southfields Rubbing House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 2006. Rubbing house.
Southfields Rubbing House
- WRENN ID
- salt-timber-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 2006
- Type
- Rubbing house
- Address
- Southfields Rubbing House, Newmarket Heath
- OS grid reference
- TL 604 631
- Coordinates
- 52.24295, 0.34862
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Southfields Rubbing House is a building located in Burwell, constructed around 1860. It was originally shown on the Ordnance Survey map as New Stables. This single-storey structure is made of gault brick and features a hipped roof covered with Welsh slate. The front has two doorways that are symmetrically placed, each with plank doors and segmental heads topped by linked broad flat hood-moulds. There is also a window at the right end of the building.
Inside, the floor is made of brick and there are iron tethering rings. The rubbing house was specifically used for rubbing down racehorses after they exercised, helping to remove sweat while they were covered in horse cloths. It is notable for being the only surviving rubbing-down house on the Newmarket training grounds. Additionally, it served as a studio for Sir Alfred Munnings during his time painting at Newmarket.
Local climate
Southfields Rubbing House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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