41-42 Stodman Street

Summary

A pair of mid-C18 houses with ground floor retail units.

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 and the town has a number of terraced buildings 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 new Town Hall of 1773 (Grade I) by John Carr of York (1723-1807). By 1801 Newark had a population of 6,730 and was Nottinghamshire’s second town.

It is thought that 41-42 Stodman Street would originally have been built as two houses 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 most substantial alteration being the reconfiguring of the ground-floor shopfronts.

Details

A pair of mid-C18 houses with ground floor retail units.

MATERIALS: brick with clay pantile roof. Timber windows.

PLAN: rectangular north block, with short ends to east and west, with the front to Stodman Street in the north. Rectangular south block of same width adjoining to the south, with narrower rectangular southern outbuildings extending from the eastern side of the building (number 41).

EXTERIOR: the building is of two storeys with an attic. The northern block is under a pitched roof with gables east and west, with the southern block adjoining has a pitched roof at right angles to the north block and a gable to the south. Further outbuildings are attached to the south. Brick chimney stacks rise centrally through the ridge of the north block, and towards the south end of the ridge of the south block.

The front elevation is brick in Flemish bond with a dentil detail at eaves level. There are two shop units at ground floor level, each with a recessed glazed door to their east. Number 41 is to the east and has a late-C19 wooden shopfront with C20 alterations including a new fascia and brick stallriser. Number 42 to the west has a late-C19 timber shopfront surround of cornice and pilasters with C20 alterations including plate glass and new mullions. At first floor level number 41 has a jettied bay window with a two-over-two sash window, while number 42 has a six-over-six sash beneath a brick flat-arch lintel. There are two raking dormer windows in the north slope of the roof, each with a six-by-six horizontal sliding sash.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:

385198

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
Pevsner, N, Harris J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (1989), p.365

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