Kirkwood House occupies a plot of some 500m2, located within the Newark-on-Trent Conservation Area in the historic town centre. ). The proposed redevelopment site is located between Mount Lane to the north-east and North Church Walk to the south-west, both leading approximately westwards off the west side of Appleton Gate, a road whose course marks the former eastern edge of the medieval town. To the north-west and south-west of the site are memorial gardens laid out after the Great War on the site of the former churchyard of the Grade I Listed medieval church of St. Mary Magdalene, which lies to the west. The north-eastern and north-western sides of the site adjoin commercial and residential properties fronting on to Mount Lane, Turpin’s Yard and Appleton Gate. Many of these are also Listed, with one Grade II* Listed Building – the former Magnus School, now the Newark Civil War Museum – and seven Grade II Listed Buildings, including the Palace Theatre). The proposed redevelopment site is located between Mount Lane to the north-east and North Church Walk to the south-west, both leading approximately westwards off the west side of Appleton Gate, a road whose course marks the former eastern edge of the medieval town. To the north-west and south-west of the site are memorial gardens laid out after the Great War on the site of the former churchyard of the Grade I Listed medieval church of St. Mary Magdalene, which lies to the west. The north-eastern and north-western sides of the site adjoin commercial and residential properties fronting on to Mount Lane, Turpin’s Yard and Appleton Gate. Many of these are also Listed, with one Grade II* Listed Building – the former Magnus School, now the Newark Civil War Museum – and seven Grade II Listed Buildings, including the Palace Theatre. Kirkwood House is itself a Grade II Listed Building, recorded as ‘c. 1840, with late C20 rear addition'. The monitored works consisted of the excavation of the foundation trench for a new dwarf wall, with railings above, located within the garden area at the south end of the eastern boundary of the property, adjacent to North Church Walk. The trench measured 5.0m in length, 0.60m wide and a maximum of 0.40m deep. The trench could not be excavated beyond a maximum depth of 0.40m due to the dense growth of tree roots. The only deposit exposed was the clayey silt topsoil, containingfragments of ceramic building material and modern refuse: its lower horizon was not reached. No finds were retrieved.