Description

NEWARK ON TRENT

SK7954SE KIRKGATE
619-1/5/185 (North East side)
29/09/50 Nos.37 & 39

GV II

2 houses, now coffee house, restaurant and florist. Late C16
and early C17, with early and mid C19 and late C20
alterations. Timber framing with rendered nogging and
underbuild, and C20 pantile roof. 2 ridge stacks. 37, to left,
has box framing with projecting eaves and wooden brackets. 2
storeys; 4 bays. 2 window range of glazing bar Yorkshire
sashes, that to the right larger. Below, C19 shallow box
shaped bay window flanked to left by an elaborately moulded
doorcase with altered half-glazed beaded panelled door. To
right, a blocked doorway with moulded recess. Both doorways
have ventilators above. 2 storey rear wing has single storey
adition with catslide roof, forming butcher's shop. Interior
has in the rear wing a stud wall with a blocked traceried C16
wooden window, and an elaborately moulded doorcase. First
floor has a single corner post, wall paintings, stud
partitions and an altered moulded stone fireplace. 39, to
right, has close studding without bay divisions. 2 storeys; 3
window range with 2 glazing bar Yorkshire sashes, that to the
right being smaller, and to right, a C19 casement. Below,
central half-glazed door with barred ventilator, flanked to
left by a late C18 sash with panelled shutters and to right by
a C20 glazing bar shop window. To right again, an entry with a
plate inscribed " St. Leonard's Court". Rear has a C19 2
storey addition with rendered walls and slate roof. To right,
a gabled stair turret. Interior has 3 truss posts, 2 of them
jowled, and crown post roof. Rear winder stair. 37 is said to
have been the residence of Lady Leake, with whom Queen
Henrietta Maria stayed when she was at Newark during the Civil
War.

Listing NGR: SK7987254010

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490801

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