DESCRIPTION: The Marlborough Club is a substantial semi-detached Grade II Listed building, with a long and distinguished history. We understand that the property occupies a site upon which there was formerly a Royal Palace built by James I of England in the early 1600's. He purchased an Inn known as 'The Griffin' fronting the High Street and on it and the present site of The Marlborough Club built a new Palace and gardens. The King died in 1625 and his son Charles I continued the Royal connection with Newmarket. The Palace was ransacked by the Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads but later, as a property of the Crown, rebuilt by the Duke of Kingston. In recent times, it was used for a variety of uses including Newmarket Magistrates Court and an Operations Centre during World War II before being sold privately in 1949. The building has been extended and comprehensively modernised in recent years and offers superb accommodation on ground, mezzanine and first floors, together with a large cellar. The site amounts in total to approximately 0.16 ha. (0.4 ac.), including a car park to the front and a garden.