19 Carter Gate

19 Carter Gate, Newark, NG24 1UA

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1227865
Date first listed:: 19-May-1971
List Entry Name:: 19 Carter Gate
Statutory Address:: 19 Carter Gate, Newark, NG24 1UA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1227865
Date first listed:: 19-May-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-May-2024
List Entry Name:: 19 Carter Gate
Statutory Address 1:: 19 Carter Gate, Newark, NG24 1UA

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 19 Carter Gate, Newark, NG24 1UA

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 79944 53773

Summary

A mid-C18 house with C20 retail unit at ground floor.

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 and the town has a number of terraced buildings 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 new Town Hall of 1773 (Grade I) by John Carr of York (1723-1807). By 1801 Newark had a population of 6,730 and was Nottinghamshire’s second town.

Carter Gate’s early medieval origins as part of the Saxon burgh are reflected in its name ‘Gate’ a Saxon word for street or way. 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.

19 Carter Gate would originally have been built as a house in the mid-C18. Its most significant alterations such as the conversion of the attic into a fourth storey were made in the C19. Further alterations, principally the conversion of the ground floor into a retail unit, were carried out in the C20.

Details

A mid-C18 house with C20 retail unit at ground floor.

MATERIALS: the front elevation is of exposed, red-brick in Flemish bond. The roof is covered with slate tiles.

PLAN: rectangular in plan, orientated with shorter ends to north-east and south-west and presenting its front elevation to Carter Gate in the north-west. To the south is a passageway leading to the building’s rear where there is a later half-width, single-storey extension. A further single-storey extension sits beyond this, joining the rear wall in the south-east.

EXTERIOR: three stories with an attic, and a retail unit at ground floor. The ground floor has been altered in the late C20 with plate-glass windows beneath timber signage, placed either side of a central, recessed doorway. To the south is a passageway leading to the building’s rear, accessed behind a timber door with glazing bar overlight beneath a timber cover and segmented brick arches. A column clad in white faience tiles sits immediately south of this door. An incomplete ashlar pilaster runs vertically from ground to the middle of the second storey at the southern end of the building.

Each floor and the attic has two windows. The first floor has six-over-six sashes beneath segmented brick arches, these are separated from the second floor by a three-brick plat band. The second floor has three-over-six sash windows with flat heads which directly abut the timber fascia above. There are two mono-pitch roofed dormer windows in the roof slope. The house has two gable stacks. The fenestration is generally repeated to the rear, including the two box dormers in the attic storey. At the third floor, a single timber door serves as a fire escape and leads to a C20 steel escape stair.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 384931
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Other
Buck, Samuel. Map of the siege of Newark (1845-46)
Pevsner, N, Harris J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (1989), p.366
Stevens, Henry, Newark-on-Trent (1820), accessed 19 November 2021

Legal

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