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. (EH)