25-26 Stodman Street

25-26 Stodman Street, Newark, NG24 1AN

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A building dating from the C18, with ground floor now converted to two retail units in C20 with commercial space above and retaining its central door. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1231811
Date first listed:: 18-May-1971
List Entry Name:: 25-26 Stodman Street
Statutory Address:: 25-26 Stodman Street, Newark, NG24 1AN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1231811
Date first listed:: 18-May-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 20-May-2024
List Entry Name:: 25-26 Stodman Street
Statutory Address 1:: 25-26 Stodman Street, Newark, NG24 1AN

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:: 25-26 Stodman Street, Newark, NG24 1AN

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 79804 53849

Summary

A building dating from the C18, with ground floor now converted to two retail units in C20 with commercial space above and retaining its central door.

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.

25 and 26 Stodman Street would have been built as a single dwelling in the mid-C18, with alterations made during the C20. The overall form of the building appears to have changed little since construction, with the only substantive alterations including a reconfigured ground-floor façade as part of the conversion into two shops. The upper three floors appear to be used as commercial space. A single, recessed wooden door to the centre provides access to the shop unit and its upper floors.

Details

Dwelling constructed in the C18, with ground floor now converted to two retail units in C20 with commercial space above and retaining its central door.

MATERIALS: constructed of brick in Flemish bond, with stone dressings, timber sash windows and a slate roof.

PLAN: the building is of four-storeys with two shop units at ground floor level with a central door providing access to the easternmost shopfront and floors above. To the rear, aerial photography shows a dormer attic extension to the west, with a two-storey gable extension to the rear of the northernmost unit.

EXTERIOR: a first-floor sill band runs across the front elevation. There is a five-bay window range. The first and second floors have six-over-six sash windows, the third floor has three-over-three sash windows. A slate roof sits above coved eaves with two side-wall stacks. A central, rusticated round-headed entry doorway at ground floor frames a four-panel door and fanlight, flanked by late-C20 shopfronts. To the east the shopfront is C19 in style, with pilasters, cornice and a three-light window with mullions over stallrisers beneath a timber, hooded canopy. To the west, there are single-pane windows within timber surrounds above stallrisers, with a central, glazed recessed door beneath a plain fascia.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 385193
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Other
Buck, Samuel. Map of the siege of Newark (1845-46)
OS 25” Nottinghamshire XXXV.3 (revised 1884, published 1886), accessed 19 November 2021
OS First Series, Sheet 70 (Published 1856), accessed 19 November 2021
Pevsner, N, Harris J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (1989), p.365
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.