Former Subscription Library
1, Church Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196277
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Former Subscription Library
- Statutory Address:
- 1, Church Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196277
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Former Subscription Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, Church Street
- Statutory Address 2:
- 10, MARKET PLACE
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 1, Church Street
- Statutory Address:
- 10, MARKET PLACE
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 79875 53926
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12 May 2025 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards
SK7953NE
619-1/8/227
NEWARK ON TRENT
MARKET PLACE (North West side)
No.10
29/09/50
GV
II
Includes: No.1 CHURCH STREET (Former Ritz Video).
Former Subscription Library, now shop. c1830, with late C20 alterations. By William Fowler. Brick with yellow brick front, red brick and stone dressings, hipped slate roof and rear wall stack. Plinth, panelled first floor band, moulded cornice and blocking course. Two storeys; five window range of 12 pane sashes with flat arches. Projecting centre, three windows, under pediment. Full width late C20 shopfront with continuous fascia. Right return, to Church Street, has a rounded corner with a plain sash and C20 door with polychrome round head and blank fanlight. Both openings have keystones. To right, a plain sash and below, a C19 shop window, reglazed late C20, with a polychrome segmental head.
(Buildings of England: N Pevsner, revised E Williamson: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 193).
Listing NGR: SK7987553926
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385080
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 193
Legal
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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