38, 39 and 40 Stodman Street

Summary

A building dating from the C18, with ground floor now converted into three retail units in C20, with assumed commercial space above.

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: 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.

It is possible that the brick building at 38, 39 and 40 Stodman Street was originally built as three houses in the mid-C18. The footprint of the building appears to have changed little since construction, with alterations made in the C19 and C20 including a reconfigured ground-floor as part of the conversion into three shops.

Details

Three former houses dating to the C18, with the ground floor converted into three retail units in the C20.

MATERIALS: the building is faced with rusticated stucco render, with timber and brick to the ground floor shop fronts. the windows are all timber sashes. The roof coverings are slate.

PLAN: the principal range runs parallel to Stodman Street with a series of perpendicular two-storey rear ranges extending to the south. The ground-floor is split into two separate retail units.

EXTERIOR: the Stodman Street frontage features seven bays of sash windows to the first and second floors above two ground floor shop units. The late-C20 shopfront at numbers 38 and 39 occupies the east and central ground floor units under a shared facia divided by moulded pilasters. These units feature plate glass windows above brick stallrisers. The shop unit to the west at number 40 features a C19 shopfront with C20 glazing. The off-centre glazed door is recessed within plate glass windows with leaded top lights. The shop front is flanked by fluted Ionic pilasters and is surmounted by an enriched dentillated cornice. Between numbers 39 and 40 is a close boarded entry door with a decorative cast iron grille above. Lintel bands run between the ground and first, and first and second floors. The coped parapet wall has seven blank panels aligned to the window bays below. From the east, the first four window bays to the first and second floor are six-over-six sashes, with the remaining all two-over-two sashes except for the sixth bay on the second floor which is blind.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:

385197

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 1884, published 1886), accessed 19 November 2021
Pevsner, N, Harris J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (1989), p.365

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