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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 2006
- Type
- Rubbing house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BURWELL
287/9/10009 Southfields Rubbing House 30-OCT-06
II Shown on OS map as New Stables. Rubbing-down house for racehorses. c.1860. Gault brick with Welsh slate hipped roof. Single storey. 2 doorways symmetrically placed have plank doors and segmental heads with linked broad flat hood-moulds. Window on right end. INTERIOR has brick floor and iron tethering rings. This building was used for rubbing-down the resultant sweat from horses after vigorous exercising covered in horse cloths, and is the only one to survive on the Newmarket training grounds. It was also used for a time by Sir Alfred Munnings as his studio when he painted at Newmarket. REFERENCE. J.Fairfax-Blakeborough, 'Old-Time Training and Stable Methods', Stud and Stable, 1966, 48-51.
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