Entrance Gateway And Gates At No.44 (Abington Place Stables)

This is an entrance gateway and pair of gates, dating from 1895, located at Abington Place Stables and Trainer's House on Bury Road in Newmarket. The design is in a Northern Renaissance style, potentially influenced by late 16th or early 17th century triumphal arches, and was commissioned for racehorse trainer Martin Gurry. The gateway is constructed of red brick with red and yellow terracotta dressings, stone dressings, and wrought iron gates.

The plan features a recessed archway flanked by quadrant walls, each terminating at its outer end with square piers supporting gas lamps.

The elevation shows a central archway set on an offset plinth featuring moulded terracotta jambs and a basket arch with stone voussoirs and a raised and dropped keystone. The keystone is carved in relief on both front and rear faces with the monogram 'MG' within a frame. Pilasters, resting on moulded bases, frame the archway, with a panel of moulded foliage on each pilaster’s face. Above, the entablature projects over the pilasters, adorned with festoons over a dentil string course and a dentil moulding cornice. A parapet caps the structure, featuring moulded capping and a ball finial above each pilaster, with blind balustrading at either end. A shallow, stone-coped, Flemish gable, topped with a finial set on a moulded base block, sits above the parapet between the finials. Recessed panels in moulded frames are found on the outer faces of the quadrant walls, while the outer piers exhibit banded rustication with stone pyramidal caps and gas lanterns, each contained within a metal frame and featuring ornamental cresting and a finial. The wrought iron gates within the archway are of a scroll pattern, richly decorated with foliage.

The gateway was built for Martin Gurry following the success of the racehorse 'La Sagesse', which he trained for Sir James Miller and won The Oaks at Epsom in 1895.