Two Stable Ranges, One Attached To And The Other Immediately North Of Wroughton House

These racehorse training stables consist of two ranges: one attached to the northwest side of Wroughton House, and another immediately north of it. The older range dates to the mid-18th century and was formerly listed as a wing to Wroughton House. A later range, built in the early 19th century, was extended in the mid-19th century. Both ranges have undergone later alterations.

The 18th-century range is constructed of red brick, with brick coped gables and a corrugated asbestos roof. It is a single-story building with a hayloft attic. The rear gable end wall has an entrance doorway with a rectangular fanlight and a loft doorway with a vertical boarded door. The front gable end wall features two sash windows on the ground floor and two sash windows in the gable, all with glazing bars in segmental-arched openings.

The 19th-century range is two stories high with a hayloft in the upper storey. The early 19th-century section on the ground floor has a doorway, and a sash window with 3x4 panes of glazing bars to the left. The mid-19th century section has three stable doors and, on the first floor, four wide casements with glazing bars.

The interior of the 18th-century range is divided by a central cross-wall with an archway for passage to loose boxes. On each side of the cross-wall, a pair of cage boxes now replace three former stalls. The original stall partitions are indicated by wall scars, and two of the partitions have been heightened and extended, with added timber fronts and hoop iron strapping, to form boxes. Each box contains a patent stoneware manger and iron tethering rings. The floors are brick-on-edge in the passage and boxes. Evidence of three former stalls remain in the early 19th-century section of the range, while the mid-19th-century section contains three loose boxes with connecting doors and a screen of turned timber balusters on top of the partition walls, all faced with hoop iron strapping. The loft above has an open timber roof with tie beam and collar trusses and exposed rafters. The 19th-century range has brick floors.

These buildings appear on John Chapman’s maps of Newmarket, dating to 1768 and 1787, and it is uncertain if they were then belonging to the Duke of Grafton or Sir John Moore. The stable range attached to the left of Wroughton House was listed previously in 1984, and this listing incorporates the second range.