34, 36, 36A, 38 Carter Gate

Summary

Three early-C19 houses with late-C19 shopfronts.

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.

Thought to have been built as three houses in the early C19, numbers 34-38 Carter Gate were altered in the late C19 when the ground floor was converted into three shops. In the early C21 the shop units of numbers 36a and 38 were combined to a single connected unit.

Details

Three early-C19 houses with late-C19 shopfronts.

MATERIALS: brick with timber windows and shopfronts, slate roof.

PLAN: rectangular, orientated with shorter ends to north-east and south-west.

EXTERIOR: two storeys under a pitched roof with its gable ends to north-east and south-west, abutting neighbouring buildings. Numbers 34 and 38 have chimney stacks that were formerly on their rear walls, but now rise through the centre of their catslide-extended rear roof slopes. Number 36 has a central stack through the ridge of its roof. The rears of the properties are obscured by C20 additions.

The façade faces south-east to Carter Gate where numbers 34 and 36 are brick in Flemish bond and number 38 is brick in English garden wall bond, all under cream paint. The ground floor has a single shopfront to number 34 to the right (north-east), then centrally, under a brick segmental arch lintel, is a six-panel door to Carter’s Yard to the rear of the property. To the left (south-west) is a double shopfront for numbers 36 and 38 (now a single unit). Number 34’s shopfront has reeded pilasters topped by scrolled brackets holding a cornice under which are two large plate glass windows, between which is deeply recessed single door. The shopfront to numbers 36 and 38 is similar to that of number 34, though the central recess is wider allowing two separate glass panelled doors, and each of the two large plate glass windows to the street has stained glass top lights above a transom.

At first-floor level, there are three windows: a central six-over-six sash window in line with the door through to Carter’s yard under a brick segmental arch lintel, and flanking this, two six-over-six sash windows each with two-over-two margin lights.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:

384935

Legacy System:

LBS

Sources

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

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