25 Carter Gate

Summary

A former dwelling, dating to the early-C18 with minor C19 alterations, converted for use as a shop in the C20 including an extension to the rear.

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.

‘Gate’ is a Saxon word for street or way and this reflects Carter Gate’s early medieval origins as part of the Saxon burgh. As part of the medieval core of the city, the relatively narrow street is densely developed. A distinctive characteristic of the medieval street was buildings arranged around courtyards accessed via gates onto Carter Gate. Some survive with others surviving simply as passages in later buildings now leading to built up areas behind the primary buildings fronting the street.

The brick building at 25 Carter Gate would originally have been built as a single house in the early C18, with minor alterations made in the late C19 and the most significant alterations made in the C20 – principally the conversion of the ground floor into a modest retail unit before subsequent alteration to a large retail unit following an extension to the rear.

Details

A former dwelling, dating to the early-C18 with minor C19 alterations, converted for use as a shop in the C20 including an extension to the rear.

MATERIALS: the front elevation is of exposed brick in a Flemish bond and later infill in stretcher bond, with a rendered plat band and quoins. The southern gable is rendered in concrete beneath a pantile roof.

PLAN: the original two-pile house has been significantly extended to the rear with flat-roofed C20 extensions which form part of the retail space, storage and delivery facilities.

EXTERIOR: the building is of three-storeys including an attic. The southern edge of the front elevation features a projecting stub of fine red brick with rendered quoins, a likely remnant of a formerly attached building. At ground floor, a bricked-up shop front now forms the main entrance with a door of plate glass and timber beneath a segmental brick arch. To the south, a large window of four-panes beneath a timber C20 fascia sits beside a six-panel door with moulded jambs beneath a flat arch with soldier coursing. The upper storeys are used for commercial purposes. A plat band runs between ground and first floors across the front elevation. The first floor has four six-over-six sash windows with flat arches of soldier coursing alternating between two headers and full-length bricks. The attic storey features three monopitched dormers with six-over-six windows. Wooden eaves sit beneath a wooden gutter held in place by brackets. A total of six pattress plates are visible on the front elevation, three bullseyes and three s-plates. A single stack sits on the southern gable end above a coped gable.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:

384932

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LBS

Sources

Other
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OS First Series, Sheet 70 (Published 1856), accessed 19 November 2021 at [https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/maps]
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OS 25” Nottinghamshire XXXV.3 (revised 1884, published 1886), accessed 19 November 2021 at [https://maps.nls.uk/view/115391696]
Photo: Newark-on-Trent, Stodman Street 1906, accessed 19 November 2021 at https://www.alamy.com/newark-on-trent-stodman-street-1906-image352593452.html
Photo: Newark On Trent, Stodman Street c.1955, accessed 19 November 2021
Pevsner, N, Harris J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (1989), p.366

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