Listed Building: MILLGATE FOLK MUSEUM AND THE NAVIGATION CO BRASSERIE (3.54.287)

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Grade II
Authority
EH LBS Legacy ID 385146
Date assigned 13 August 1992
Date last amended

Description

Former Trent navigation Co. warehouse and adjoining maltings, now a museum and brasserie. Dated 1870 on the wall ties and chimney base, with C19 and mid and late C20 alterations. The maltings built by W Duke, builder, probably for one of the Gilstrap family, maltsters, whose monogram appears on the wall ties. Brick with slate roofs. Mostly regular fenestration with segment headed openings. River frontage has the hipped warehouse to left. 5 storeys; 6 window range with loft doors in the third bay. T-plan. On the fourth floor, a hoist gallery with struts. On the ground floor, a larger doorway under the hoist, flanked by 2 smaller doorways. All these openings have C20 glazing. Between the upper floors the inscription "Trent navigation Co. Wharf & Warehouse". In the centre, a gabled range, 4 storeys, 5 windows. In the right bay a tall round headed glazing bar window covering 2 floors. In the second bay, a small gabled hoist canopy, and altered hoist doors on the second and third floors. On the ground floor, a larger glazed hoist door. To the right, a lower half hipped range with the base and coping of an octagonal chimney stack, inscribed "W Duke Builder N...70". 2 storeys. To left, 2 small windows. To right, between floors, a large C20 window. On the ground floor, to left, 2 blocked round headed doorways and to right, an altered round headed carriage opening. Right return, to Mill Lane, has to right a segmental carriage opening with stone quoins and dated keystone. To left, 2 windows. At the rear, the warehouse has a 4 storey range, 4 windows, facing the courtyard with a full width cantilevered stone gallery on the first floor, reached by an external stone stair. Irregular fenestration, with 3 large doorways on the ground floor. Central range and lower adjoining range have similar fenestration to the river front. Warehouse interior has segmental brick arches on the ground floor and above, wooden floors carried on round and cruciform iron piers. Maltings have wooden floors and round iron piers. (EH)

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Grid reference Centred SK 79370 53716 (56m by 44m)
Map sheet SK75SE
District Newark
Civil Parish Newark, Newark

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Nov 20 2017 2:33PM

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