Queensbury Lodge And Attached Wall

Queensbury Lodge and attached wall is a house on the High Street in Newmarket, formerly the racehorse trainer's residence at Queensbury Lodge Stables. The main building dates to the mid 18th century but incorporates part of an early to mid 17th-century house. It underwent alterations in the early to mid 19th century. The adjoining wing to the east is a late 18th-century stable block that was converted in the mid 19th century as an extension to the house and further altered internally in the 20th century.

The main house is constructed of red brick painted white except for the west gable end wall. It retains some 17th-century timber framing internally and in the rear wall at first floor level under later external render. The roof is plain tile with coped end gables, and the front elevation features two roof dormers with catslide slate roofs. A brick stack sits on each gable. The east wing is also of red brick painted white with a plain tile roof with half-hip at the right hand end. It has three flat metal-roofed dormers to the front and four similar dormers to the rear, and a central brick ridge stack with two ceramic pots.

The plan comprises a single-depth, two-unit range of the 18th-century house facing a shallow stone paved front area, formerly enclosed with cast iron railing on plinth. There is an end-gabled service wing to the rear left, and the east wing, originally stables, projects forward to the street boundary.

The main 18th-century house has two storeys, an attic, and a cellar below the west unit. The front elevation features an offset plinth and a raised band at first floor level, with a cogged brick eaves cornice. The ground floor entrance doorway is off-centre to the right with an early 19th-century six-panel door with upper panels glazed. The fenestration is irregular, with a sash to each side of the doorway and three similar sashes on the first floor. All sashes have two vertical glazing bars in openings with timber lintels and projecting stone sills. The rear wall shows evidence of timber framing at first floor level.

The converted former stable range is a single storey and attic. Its symmetrical front elevation has a central segmental-arched window with projecting key-block, and widely spaced to each side a large semi-circular arched opening containing a fixed arched sash with glazing bars. Both openings were formerly doorways into the stable range before conversion. The dormers to front and rear contain sashes with glazing bars of 3 by 4 panes. The west gable end wall has raised bands at first floor and attic floor level and a small stone framed panel set into the gable. The rear wing is single storey. A white painted brick wall extends eastwards and links with No 196 Queensbury Cottage.

Internally, the ground floor rooms have been largely refitted in the 20th century. The right hand room contains a lateral bridging beam with nicked stop chamfers. The cellar has a massive bridging beam and a brick arched lamp locker. The mid 19th-century staircase features a column newel and stick balusters. On the first floor above the doorway in the passage is a late 18th-century decorative glazed fanlight. The rear wall displays exposed 17th-century jowelled and chamfered timber posts and a chamfered wall plate. In the attic, exposed collar ties and purlins are visible; the roof is otherwise not accessible but is probably 17th century. The rooms in the east wing have been refitted in the 20th century.