GOVERNOR'S HOUSE

GOVERNOR'S HOUSE, 24, STODMAN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1297633
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1950
List Entry Name:: GOVERNOR'S HOUSE
Statutory Address:: GOVERNOR'S HOUSE, 24, STODMAN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1297633
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1950
List Entry Name:: GOVERNOR'S HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GOVERNOR'S HOUSE, 24, STODMAN STREET

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:: GOVERNOR'S HOUSE, 24, STODMAN STREET

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 79810 53853

Details

NEWARK ON TRENT

SK7953NE STODMAN STREET 619-1/8/342 (South side) 29/09/50 No.24 Governor's House

GV I

Also known as: Harvest Bakery & Cafe. House, now bakery and cafe. 1474, with late C18 addition and early and late C19 and C20 alterations. Restored and converted 1987 by Guy St John Taylor Associates. Timber framed, with coursed rubble and brick underbuild and rendered nogging, and colourwashed brick, with pantile roof. Close studded front has coved jettied floors with billeted bressummers, coved eaves and coped gables. Single external rear wall and gable stacks. 3 storeys, 6 bays. L-plan. 3 large early C19 glazing bar sashes and above, a 2-light glazing bar casement to left, and 2 glazing bar fixed lights to right. Below, 2 late C20 wooden shopfronts, that to left with central recess and a pair of glazed doors, flanked by single pane windows. That to right has a segment headed single pane window and an angled recess with a glazed door. Door and window have leaded overlights. To right again, a close boarded entry door. East side has close studding and a glazed-in open gallery with wooden mullions, flanked by single 3-light windows. Above, two 2-light casements and a smaller single casement. At the rear, to west, the 2 upper stages of a jettied turret with moulded bressummer and decorated gable. Small glazing bar sash and above, a hatch. Rear wing has a coved jettied second floor. Single glazing bar sash and single Yorkshire sash, and above, 2 Yorkshire sashes with 4 and 2 lights. Below, a beaded 6-panel door with overlight, flanked to left by a large glazing bar sash. 2 storey C18 addition, to south, has a C20 metal casement and below, a segment headed door. Interior retains almost complete framing, with stud walls and arch braces on the first floor, several of them with wall painting. Similar second floor has plain stud walls. Principal rafter roof with single butt purlins, struts and wind braces. Ground floor has plain span beams, some renewed, one of them with a figure-carved stone bracket. First floor has chamfered span beams and in the rear wing an exposed ceiling with moulded joists, and a cambered span beam. Central ground floor fireplace with moulded cambered bressummer and jambs. On the first floor, a similar fireplace bressummer. Partly renewed winder stairs have on the first floor a C15 garderobe. 2 doors made of wall panelling. This building is an important example of timber framing, wihich was predominant in Newark before c1660. It was the headquarters of the town governor during the sieges of 1643 and 1646. (Buildings of England: N Pevsner, revised E Williamson: Nottinghamshire: Harmondsworth: 1979-: 196).

Listing NGR: SK7981053853

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Legacy System number:: 385192
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 196

Legal

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