Horse Racing Museum is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1984. A C19 Museum.
Horse Racing Museum
- WRENN ID
- dark-gutter-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1984
- Type
- Museum
- Address
- Horse Racing Museum, High Street, Newmarket
- OS grid reference
- TL 643 632
- Coordinates
- 52.24323, 0.40525
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Horse Racing Museum, originally subscription rooms, is an early 19th-century building that was restored around 1980. The garden elevation features two storeys with six windows and a projecting wing to the left. It is constructed of painted gault brick and has hipped slated roofs. The early 19th-century sash windows have flat arches made of gauged brick, with small-pane sashes on the upper floor and large-pane sashes with panelled internal shutters on the ground floor. The entrance doors are glazed and date from the 20th century. Inside, there is a mid-19th-century one-storey room that has three bays of blank arcading and a coffered ceiling with a central lantern. The building was originally a betting establishment and later became part of the Jockey Club Headquarters.
Local climate
Horse Racing Museum 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 87% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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