At the corner of Middle Gate, a C15 timber-framed building. Jettied upper storey, with some curved braced; modern ground floor. (1)

2 houses, now butcher's shop. Late C15, restored and altered mid C19 and mid C20. (2)

C14 - C15 box-framed, jettied. (3)

A conspicuous timber-framed building, occupying a corner plot with frontages on Kirk Gate and Middle Gate, that has been dated by dendrochronology to 1337. Of two storeys, jettied with arched braces to the upper floor, the building was thought to have been built in the mid-15th century until it was subjected to dendrochronological assessment. It in fact represents the surviving half of a longer building which originally extended further along Kirkgate, the other half was demolished in 1907 to make way for the Post Office and the building adjacent to it. The building was constructed as floored premises rather than as an open hall, and probably originally contained commercial premises on the ground floor. It has a crown post roof. It also has traces of a painted decorative scheme which may have been added to the building in the 16th century. Prior to the dendrochronological assessment of this building, it had been assumed that jettying in timber-framed construction had not reached Nottinghamshire until the latter half of the 14th century. The buildings were listed grade II in 1971. (4)

This building has been sampled on two separate occassions, in 1997 and 1999. Prior to tree-ring analysis, this building had been thought to be mid-fifteenth century. The initial dating of timers in 1997 had shown that the roof was constructed from timbers felled in AD 1337. The main purpose of further sampling at these premises was to ascertain whether the house had always been jettied or was built as an open hall with a floor later inserted. The second phase of sampling and dating at this building resulted in a further three timbers being dated, two of which are jetty joists. The matching of two of the sampled jetty joists with samples taken from the roof would suggest that rather than having been built as an open hall then having a floor inserted later, this jettied floor is original. A date of AD 1337 would make the building a very early example of this type of construction in the Midlands. Although jettying is known to have been carried out at this date further south it has been assumed that it was not until the latter half of the fourteenth century that this style reached this area. (5)

Listed buildings slides, 3 slides (Photograph). SNT2648.

RCHME, 1997, 22-24 Kirkgate Newark (Measured plan). SNT2588.

<1> Pevsner N, 1979, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire 2nd ed., p 196 (Monograph). SNT4.

<2> DOE, Listed Building Description (Published document). SNT228.

<3> John Samuels Archaeological Consultants, 1995, A Survey of Timber Framed Buildings of Newark, Stage 1 (Unpublished document). SNT2173.

<4> Historic England, 2024, Newark on Trent: Historic Area Assessment by Historic England (Unpublished document). SNT6029.

<5> A.J. Arnold, R.E Howard, R.R Laxton, C.D Litton, 2002, The Urban Development of Newark-on-Trent: A Dendrochronological Approach (Monograph). SNT1624.