Millgate Folk Museum the Navigation Company Brasserie
MILLGATE FOLK MUSEUM, MILLGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196406
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Millgate Folk Museum the Navigation Company Brasserie
- Statutory Address:
- MILLGATE FOLK MUSEUM, MILLGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196406
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Millgate Folk Museum the Navigation Company Brasserie
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILLGATE FOLK MUSEUM, MILLGATE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE NAVIGATION COMPANY BRASSERIE, MILLGATE
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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:
- MILLGATE FOLK MUSEUM, MILLGATE
- Statutory Address:
- THE NAVIGATION COMPANY BRASSERIE, MILLGATE
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 79367 53725
Details
NEWARK ON TRENT
SK7953NW MILLGATE 619-1/7/295 (North West side) Millgate Folk Museum and The Navigation Co. Brasserie
GV II
Former Trent navigation Co. warehouse and adjoining maltings, now a museum and brasserie. Dated 1870 on the wall ties and chimney base, with C19 and mid and late C20 alterations. The maltings built by W Duke, builder, probably for one of the Gilstrap family, maltsters, whose monogram appears on the wall ties. Brick with slate roofs. Mostly regular fenestration with segment headed openings. River frontage has the hipped warehouse to left. 5 storeys; 6 window range with loft doors in the third bay. T-plan. On the fourth floor, a hoist gallery with struts. On the ground floor, a larger doorway under the hoist, flanked by 2 smaller doorways. All these openings have C20 glazing. Between the upper floors the inscription "Trent navigation Co. Wharf & Warehouse". In the centre, a gabled range, 4 storeys, 5 windows. In the right bay a tall round headed glazing bar window covering 2 floors. In the second bay, a small gabled hoist canopy, and altered hoist doors on the second and third floors. On the ground floor, a larger glazed hoist door. To the right, a lower half hipped range with the base and coping of an octagonal chimney stack, inscribed "W Duke Builder N...70". 2 storeys. To left, 2 small windows. To right, between floors, a large C20 window. On the ground floor, to left, 2 blocked round headed doorways and to right, an altered round headed carriage opening. Right return, to Mill Lane, has to right a segmental carriage opening with stone quoins and dated keystone. To left, 2 windows. At the rear, the warehouse has a 4 storey range, 4 windows, facing the courtyard with a full width cantilevered stone gallery on the first floor, reached by an external stone stair. Irregular fenestration, with 3 large doorways on the ground floor. Central range and lower adjoining range have similar fenestration to the river front. Warehouse interior has segmental brick arches on the ground floor and above, wooden floors carried on round and cruciform iron piers. Maltings have wooden floors and round iron piers. (Buildings of England: N Pevsner, revised E Williamson: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 199).
Listing NGR: SK7936753725
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385146
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 199
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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