Cadland House And Cadland House Stables

Cadland House and Cadland House Stables

A racehorse trainer's house with extensive ranges of stables, located in Newmarket. The property comprises a house, ranges of stables on the west and north sides of the stable yard, and additional stables on the south and eastern sides. The north and west stable ranges date to the early or mid 18th century with minor 19th and 20th century alterations. The south and east ranges are early 19th century with later alterations. A 20th century back-to-back range in the centre of the yard is not considered of special architectural interest.

The house itself dates to the early 19th century but incorporates earlier origins, with mid 19th century alterations. It is constructed of painted and rendered brick with a slate roof and end stacks. The building is two storeys with a three-window range at first floor level featuring 2/2 sashes. The ground floor has a central doorway with a panelled door and tripartite sashes on either side. A single-storey extension to the rear links to the south-west end of the west stable range. The interior contains late 19th century dado panelling in the dining room.

The stable ranges are built of red brick in Flemish bond, painted cream. The north range has a half-hipped, plain-tiled roof, the west range has a corrugated roof, and the south and east ranges have slate roofs.

The north range comprises a rectangular block facing the stable yard. Its plan includes, to the left of a central lobby, two caged loose boxes, and to the right, two tack rooms with hay loft above. The exterior is two storeys with brick dentil cornices to the eaves and half-gable verges. The front elevation facing the yard features a central doorway to the lobby, a doorway to the loose box passage on the left, and a doorway to the stalls on the right. All three doorways have side-hung fanlights and stable doors with segmental arched heads. Between the left doorways is a sash with 3x4 pane glazing bars. The first floor has two loft doors with a Yorkshire sash between them. The rear elevation, facing Warren Hill, has a ground floor doorway on the right with a decorative cast iron ventilator set in the wall above the lintel, and two first floor loft doorways with horizontal boarded doors. The end walls are blank.

The ground floor interior features a central lobby with timber-framed cross partitions and brick-on-edge nogging. The loose boxes and stalls contain 19th century partitions. In the loft is a 18th century timber-framed central cross partition and a similar framed partition between the hayloft and the abutting end of the range on the west side of the yard. The roof is an open timber structure of five bays with trusses featuring tie beams (formerly angle braced) and collars. Each bay contains heavy butt purlins and exposed rafters with pegged joints. Several inserted ties between trusses are visible.

The west range comprises a long range of caged and loose boxes with entry from Sackville Street into the yard. It is constructed of cream-painted brick with a corrugated roof, single storey with loft, and has a doorway with stable door for each section. The interior contains caged and loose boxes with an original butt purlin roof, which is interrupted by the north range, suggesting the north range is slightly later in date.

The east and south ranges form a long range of loose boxes with an office formed within the south range. These ranges are cream-painted brick with slate roofs, single storey, with doorways and stable doors for each loose box. Part of the south range has been converted to office use.

The north stable block is depicted in a panoramic view of Newmarket from Warren Hill by Peter Tillemans dating to around 1725, and in an engraved view of the training grounds outside the stables by James Pollard dated 1825. Cadland House and Cadland House Stables appear on both editions of John Chapman's late 18th century Map of Newmarket. The earlier edition attributes them to Vernon Esquire, but the 1787 edition's key symbol for the Duke of Grafton is unclear as to whether it refers to this property or to Wroughton House next door. They were later owned by the fifth Duke of Rutland and were named after his racehorse "Cadland", the joint winner of the Derby in 1828.

This represents a particularly fine example of a racehorse training establishment and is among the most historic in Newmarket, containing stables dating from the early 18th century—almost certainly the earliest surviving in the town—alongside those from the early and mid 19th century.