4-8 Carter Gate

Summary

Three former houses, constructed during the C18, subsequently converted to shop use during the C20.

History

Newark appears as Newerche in the 1086 Domesday Book. It’s original name Niweweorche (meaning 'New work') is likely associated with the meaning "New fort". The site of Newark Castle was founded by Robert Bloet, Bishop of Lincoln in 1073 and rebuilt in stone from 1123-1133. A bridge over the Trent was built under charter from Henry I at a similar time. In the C15 and C16, Newark became a prosperous market town centred on the wool and cloth trade and characterised by a dense street pattern surrounding the market square. It was incorporated by the Crown in 1549. Significant development occurred during the C18 in response to growing trade along the Great North Road: with a number of handsome terraced Georgian buildings evident from this time. In 1775 a new bridge over the River Trent was constructed, it was further improved in 1848 and forms the current ‘Trent Bridge’. The Market Place was rebuilt in the C18 with coaching inns; the houses of leading citizens and the splendid new Town Hall (1773) by John Carr. By 1801 Newark had a population of 6,730 and was Nottinghamshire’s second town.

Carter Gate emerged in the mid-late C18 as Newark Rapidly Expanded. It runs beside the main Market Place (connected by Bridge Street) as well as running parallel to Lincoln Road/Bar Gate, the original Roman Road ('Fosse Way') which linked the north of England with the south coast. The existence of pantiles on many of the roofs along Carter Gate is likely a result of Newark being positioned on the navigable River Trent and a developed history of trade with the low countries.

The brick building at 4-8 Carter Gate would originally have been built as three houses in the late C18 before being converted to shops during the C20.

Details

Three former houses, constructed during the C18, subsequently converted to shop use during the C20.

MATERIALS: there are two glazed shopfronts to the ground floor, one with timber surrounds. The upper storeys of the building are built of red brick laid in a Flemish bond. There are timber-framed single-pane sash windows on first and second floors within timber surrounds. The roof is covered with pantiles.

PLAN: the building forms part of a terrace and has a rectangular plan orientated on a north-east to south-west axis. The ground floor is split into two retail units.

EXTERIOR: the building is set over three storeys which face directly onto Carter Gate. The ground floor contains two shopfronts. The one to the left has a mid-C20 with plate-glass frontage with a terrazzo floor threshold and shares a double frontage with The Arcade. The shopfront to the right dates to the C21 but in a traditional style with a stallriser, timber frame and inset threshold. These are unmatched with an off centre central door. Above ground floor level, the red-brick façade has seven bays with sash windows in the odd-numbered bays at first and second floor levels with blind recesses in alternate bays. The first-floor windows have late-C19 single-pane sash windows with soldier-coursed, extended segmental arches. There are blind windows of the same shape between. Second-storey windows are smaller with two-over-two sashes. Above the dentillated eaves sits a hipped roof covered with clay pantiles. There are three, single-stack chimneys in the first, third and seventh bays. The building immediately backs onto the shop units that run to the north-west, forming one side of ‘The Arcade’.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:

384928

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LBS

Sources

Other
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Pevsner, N, Harris J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (1989), p.366

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