37 AND 39, KIRKGATE

37 AND 39, KIRKGATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196265
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1950
List Entry Name:
37 AND 39, KIRKGATE
Statutory Address:
37 AND 39, KIRKGATE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196265
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1950
List Entry Name:
37 AND 39, KIRKGATE
Statutory Address 1:
37 AND 39, KIRKGATE

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
37 AND 39, KIRKGATE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Nottinghamshire
District:
Newark and Sherwood (District Authority)
Parish:
Newark
National Grid Reference:
SK 79872 54010

Details

NEWARK ON TRENT

SK7954SE KIRKGATE 619-1/5/185 (North East side) 29/09/50 Nos.37 & 39

GV II

2 houses, now coffee house, restaurant and florist. Late C16 and early C17, with early and mid C19 and late C20 alterations. Timber framing with rendered nogging and underbuild, and C20 pantile roof. 2 ridge stacks. 37, to left, has box framing with projecting eaves and wooden brackets. 2 storeys; 4 bays. 2 window range of glazing bar Yorkshire sashes, that to the right larger. Below, C19 shallow box shaped bay window flanked to left by an elaborately moulded doorcase with altered half-glazed beaded panelled door. To right, a blocked doorway with moulded recess. Both doorways have ventilators above. 2 storey rear wing has single storey adition with catslide roof, forming butcher's shop. Interior has in the rear wing a stud wall with a blocked traceried C16 wooden window, and an elaborately moulded doorcase. First floor has a single corner post, wall paintings, stud partitions and an altered moulded stone fireplace. 39, to right, has close studding without bay divisions. 2 storeys; 3 window range with 2 glazing bar Yorkshire sashes, that to the right being smaller, and to right, a C19 casement. Below, central half-glazed door with barred ventilator, flanked to left by a late C18 sash with panelled shutters and to right by a C20 glazing bar shop window. To right again, an entry with a plate inscribed " St. Leonard's Court". Rear has a C19 2 storey addition with rendered walls and slate roof. To right, a gabled stair turret. Interior has 3 truss posts, 2 of them jowled, and crown post roof. Rear winder stair. 37 is said to have been the residence of Lady Leake, with whom Queen Henrietta Maria stayed when she was at Newark during the Civil War.

Listing NGR: SK7987254010

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Legacy System number:
385038
Legacy System:
LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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