The Jockey Club is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1981. Club headquarters.
The Jockey Club
- WRENN ID
- eastward-panel-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1981
- Type
- Club headquarters
- Address
- The Jockey Club, High Street, Newmarket
- OS grid reference
- TL 643 632
- Coordinates
- 52.24294, 0.40513
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Jockey Club is the club headquarters built around 1933 by Sir Albert Richardson. It is designed in the neo-Georgian style and consists of two storeys. The main section has five windows and is set back between two canted wings, each with three windows. The building is constructed from orange brick and features parapets, along with a moulded limestone band beneath the first-floor windows. The roofs are hipped and covered with plain tiles, and the chimneys are also made of orange brick.
A notable feature of the building is the prominent central rotunda, which is clad in copper and supported by eight Doric columns on a square plinth that includes a clock. The sash windows have flat arches made of gauged brick and small-pane sashes. The central range displays a limestone arcade with three arches on the ground floor, complemented by enriched pilasters, a cornice, and a frieze. Wrought iron railings with lamp brackets are attached to the wings along the front boundary. Additionally, there is a contemporary wing that extends to the south-east at the rear.
Local climate
The Jockey Club 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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