40 and 41, Market Place

40 and 41, Market Place

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1297637
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1950
List Entry Name:
40 and 41, Market Place
Statutory Address:
40 and 41, Market Place
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1297637
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1950
List Entry Name:
40 and 41, Market Place
Statutory Address 1:
40 and 41, Market Place

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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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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Location

Statutory Address:
40 and 41, Market Place

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 79871 53848

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24 July 2023 to remove superfluous source details from text and reformat the text to current standards

SK7953NE
619-1/8/239

NEWARK ON TRENT
MARKET PLACE (south side)
Nos.40 and 41

29/09/50

GV
II*
Also known as: Nos.12 and 13 SARACEN'S HEAD YARD.

Former coaching inn, now shop and bank. 1721, with late C20 alterations. Brick, with stone dressings and hipped pantile roof with two ridge stacks. Chamfered quoins, second floor band, moulded eaves. Three storeys; eight window range of plain sashes, those to first floor with brick flat arches. In the centre of the first floor, a niche with Saracen's Head bust. Ground floor has an eight bay Tuscan arcade with continuous cornice. In the fourth bay, a carriage entrance. To its left, fully glazed late C20 shopfront.To its right, rendered wall with plinth. Two twelve pane sashes, flanked by single mid C20 doors with overlights. The door to left has two leaves. Right rear wing ground floor rebuilt late C20. Brick with pantile roof and single gable stack. Two storeys plus attics; seven window range of segment headed twelve pane sashes, the three to right smaller. Above, to left, two raking dormers. Interior is said to have C18 staircase and plaster overmantels.

Listing NGR: SK7988353831

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

Legacy System number:
385091
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 193

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

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