Apparently dates from 1489. Although stuccoed now, it is clearly the r. half [really two thirds - JW] of a Wealden-type building, i.e. with a jettied wing alongside a recessed section. (1)
A total of 32 samples were collected from timbers in 1993. Dendro analysis produced an estimated felling date of 1452. (2)
1452. Wealdon Type, jettied west bay. (3)
A timber-framed building, dating from around 1452. It is unclear how long it has been a public house. Formerly known as the Woolpack, few documentary records appear to have survived although it is mentioned in a lease in 1798. The building is significantly lower than its neighbours as it is only two storeys, with brick to the ground floor and a timber-frame above. It is formed of two bays, the easternmost of which has a first-floor jetty and was thus floored while the western bay was originally an open hall, both housed under a single roof structure running parallel to the street. Thus, it was built as a Wealden or half-Wealden house type. The full Wealden or ‘recessed-hall house’ characteristically had an open hall flanked on both side by floored, jettied end-bays under a single roof. Although once considered a form of building seen predominantly in the rural south-east of England, it is now recognised as an urban building type, with a wider geographic distribution although most identified examples are still in the south-east. (4)

Listed buildings slides, 41 slides (Photograph). SNT2648.

Graham Beaumont, Woolpack Inn (Plan). SNT4421.

Graham Beaumont & C. Minors, 1990's, The Woolpack Stodman St (Plan). SNT4377.

Graham Beaumont, 21/1/93, The Woolpack Stodman St (Plan). SNT2656.

External Architect: Chris Miners, Dec. 1993, The Woolpack Stodman St (Plan). SNT4263.

December 93, The Woolpack, Stodman Street (Plan). SNT3472.

December 93, The Woolpack, Stodman Street (Plan). SNT3512.

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

<2> Nottingham Tree Ring Dating Laboratory, 1993, Woolpack Inn, Stodman Street, Newark - Dendro Report (Unpublished document). SNT5127.

<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 John Samuels Archaeological Consultants, 1995, A Survey of Timber Framed Buildings of Newark, Stage 1 (Unpublished document).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 Historic England, 2024, Newark on Trent, Historic Area Assessment by Historic England (Unpublished document).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.