33-35 Carter Gate

Summary

A two-storey building of three bays, dating from the early-C18 that would have once existed as three houses, now serving as three retail units following C20 ground-floor alterations.

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.

‘Gate’ is a Saxon word for street or way and this reflects Carter Gate’s early medieval origins as part of the Saxon burgh. As part of the medieval core of the city, the relatively narrow street is densely developed. A distinctive characteristic of the medieval street was buildings arranged around courtyards accessed via gates onto Carter Gate. Some survive with others surviving simply as passages in later buildings now leading to built-up areas behind the primary buildings fronting the street.

33 and 35 Carter Gate would originally have been built as three houses in the early C18 with the most significant alterations made in the C20, principally the conversion of the ground floor into retail units.

Details

Three dwellings constructed in the early C18, ground floor converted into retail units in the C20.

MATERIALS: the building is rendered with a pitched, tiled roof. The ground-floor contains timber shopfronts with modern glazing.

PLAN: the principal range is linear on plan and faces north west with later additions projecting to the rear.

EXTERIOR: the ground floor is split into three shopfronts with multi-light bow windows forming C20 shopfronts to the left and centre, with a replica C19 shopfront with mullions and a recessed, central half-glazed door and continuous fascia to the right. The front elevation is rendered with three window openings at first floor each with three lights with C20 glazing. A pantile roof with a single coped gable to the left forms the party boundary.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:

384934

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 1899, published 1900), 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.366

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