5-7 Carter Gate

Summary

A former public house dating from the C19, with ground floor converted into two shops in 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 - 33. 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.

This brick building at 5-7 Carter Gate was originally built as a public house in the late C19, with the ground floor subsequently converted into a shop, likely during the late C20 following the closure of the pub. The pub was the New White Hart, which was first mentioned in 1868 and closed by the 1960s. The overall form of the building appears to have changed little since construction, with the only substantive alterations including a reconfigured ground-floor façade as part of the conversion into two shops. The inconsistency with the second-floor windows suggest later alterations were made to these. Painted advertising for ‘Warwick’s Ales’ to the front of the building was painted over after 2014.

Details

A former public house dating from the C19, with ground floor converted into two shops in the C20.

MATERIALS: the building is predominately of exposed red brick with painted stone dressings. The roof tiles are concrete with two brick stacks.

PLAN: 5 and 7 form a single building roughly square on plan with its principal elevation facing Carter Gate.A two-storey gable extension projects to the rear with a single gable stack, and a further single-storey flat-roof extension abutting the rear wall.

EXTERIOR: the building is set over three storeys with three window bays. The ground floor has been divided into two shopfronts, with two upper storeys. Both shopfronts are C20 alterations, with C20 piers in Flemish bonded brickwork of differing types. Both shopfronts have recessed doors; glass shopfronts; fascias and incorporate stallrisers and recessed entrances, though unmatched.

At first floor are three Gergian sash windows, the outer two are eight-over-eight, whilst the central window is of six-over-six lights. Across the second floor are three windows, the windows at this level for number 5 (left) are two casement windows whilst the window for number 7 is a four-over-four-light sash window. The front elevation is principally defined by first and second floor plat bands. Beneath the second-floor plat band is a deep, painted band of brickwork (black at number 5 and cream at number 7).

Dentillated eaves sit beneath a pitched roof of concrete tiles that are gabled at the ends with two brick chimney stacks, the southernmost built on the gable with the northernmost on the ridge. The southern, coped gable is partially visible from the street with the northernmost abutting the neighbouring building. Ten metal plates affixed to the brickwork show likely evidence of signage on the building’s front elevation.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:

384929

Legacy System:

LBS

Sources

Other
Buck, Samuel. Map of the siege of Newark (1845-46)https://militarymaps.rct.uk/other-17th-century-conflicts/newark-1645-6-an-exact-plat-form-of-all-the-redoubts
Stevens, Henry, Newark-on-Trent (1820), accessed 19 November 2021
OS First Series, Sheet 70 (Published 1856), accessed 19 November 2021
OS 25” Nottinghamshire XXXV.3 (revised 1899, published 1900), accessed 19 November 2021
OS 25” Nottinghamshire XXXV.3 (revised 1884, published 1886), accessed 19 November 2021
Pevsner, N, Harris J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (1989), p.366.

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