Grandstand and Jockey Quarters at Tweseldown Racecourse is a Grade II listed building in the Hart local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 2004. Grandstand, jockey quarters.
Grandstand and Jockey Quarters at Tweseldown Racecourse
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-balcony-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hart
- Constituency
- North East Hampshire MP: Alex Brewer (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 2004
- Type
- Grandstand, jockey quarters
- Address
- Grandstand and Jockey Quarters at Tweseldown Racecourse, Ewshot
- OS grid reference
- SU 824 517
- Coordinates
- 51.2591, -0.82016
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The grandstand and jockey quarters at Tweseldown Racecourse are a racecourse facility built in the late 19th century. Constructed from red brick with yellow brick dressings and topped with a slate roof, the building features an L-shaped layout. The grandstand is two storeys high, while the jockeys quarters are a single storey. The grandstand has a hipped slate roof adorned with terracotta cresting, a square wooden ventilation louvre, and a lead pyramidal roof topped with a metal weathervane. The northwest elevation includes a set of steps flanked by stepped end gables and square pyramidal piers with pyramidal roofs, along with a wooden partition for the first-floor steps. The rear elevation showcases a central chimneystack, wide windows, and yellow brick dressings.
To the north, there is a one-storey building with a gable end featuring carved bargeboards, a clock face, and wooden verandahs on the west and east sides, which have curved bargeboards, wooden piers with arched windbraces, and a canted bay to the north. Inside, the building contains a 19th-century wooden corner fireplace, dado panelling, and a kingpost roof. The L-wing to the south matches the main structure in materials and features, with windows, cambered doorcases, and a weather porch topped with a finial. The interior of this wing also has plank dado panelling and wooden fireplaces. Racing at Tweseldown began in 1855, initially featuring flat racing, but it is now used for point-to-points and dressage. The grandstand and jockey quarters are notable for being part of a small late 19th-century country racecourse that remains unusually unaltered.
Local climate
Grandstand and Jockey Quarters at Tweseldown Racecourse receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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