8 Stodman Street

Summary

Likely a former house constructed during the late-C18 in exposed red brick, later converted to shop use at ground floor during the C20.

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 and 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, with a number of handsome terraced Georgian buildings evident 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 splendid new Town Hall (1773) by John Carr. By 1801 Newark had a population of 6,730 and was Nottinghamshire’s second town.

8 Stodman Street was likely built as a single house in the late C18, with alterations made in the late C19 and further alterations made in the mid-C20. The overall form of the building appears to have changed little since construction, with the only substantive alterations including a reconfigured ground-floor as part of the conversion into a shop. A single, timber door to the east provides access to the side passageway. The existence of pantiles on many of Stodman Street’s roofs is likely a result of Newark being positioned on the navigable River Trent and a developed history of trade with the low countries.

Details

Dwelling constructed during the late C18, later converted to shop use at ground floor during the C20.

MATERIALS: constructed of brick in Flemish bond. The ground-floor shopfront is timber with C20 plate glass and glazed door. The roof has clay pantiles .

PLAN: the building is square on plan and has three storeys with a shop unit at ground floor level. A single-extension sits to the rear, beyond which remains a large courtyard.

EXTERIOR: the ground floor is occupied with a timber-surround shopfront which extends as far as the original brick arch leading to a side passageway, now painted. The shopfront has a mid-C20 glazed door and overlight to right and a single pane window to the left. A cast-iron plate sits above the segmental arch of the side passage inscribed 'HARSTON'S YARD'. There are two windows on both floors, with three-over-six sashes on the first floor and three-over-three sashes on the second floor. All windows sit beneath rendered, cut-brick lintels. An additional band of bricks runs beneath the second floor. The red brick is exposed and arranged in a Flemish bond. Dog tooth brick eaves sit beneath a steeply pitched roof with clay pantiles with no surviving chimney stacks.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:

385191

Legacy System:

LBS

Sources

Other
Buck, Samuel. Map of the siege of Newark (1845-46)
Stevens, Henry, Newark-on-Trent (1820), accessed 19 November 2021
OS First Series, Sheet 70 (Published 1856), accessed 19 November 2021
OS 25” Nottinghamshire XXXV.3 (revised 1899, published 1900), accessed 19 November 2021
OS 25” Nottinghamshire XXXV.3 (revised 1884, published 1886), accessed 19 November 2021
Pevsner, N, Harris J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (1989), p.366

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