Castlegate … The houses are mostly plain C18, with slightly elaborate doorcases and some central pediments (e.g. Nos. 21-31). (1)
Pair of houses. Mid C18 with late C19 and late C20 alterations. (2)
No. 23 Castlegate - Late 18th-century house, like No. 11 it was adapted in the early 20th century to create garaging. By 1922 been turned into ‘Brooks Garage’, with an extension at the rear to provide a large garage workshop with access through a glazed shopfront on Castle Gate (Photo of Brooks Garage, from c.1922-24 Newark Resource Centre ref. 38130). Unlike Castle Motors at No 11, whose adverts suggest they catered to clients in need of private vehicles, Brooks Garage catered to the agricultural and commercial occupants of Newark. Brooks posted regular adverts in the local press publicising second-hand vans and tractors for sale as well as offering ploughing services. The existing double-doored shopfront onto Castle Gate appears to be that installed for the garage prior to 1922. This provided vehicular access directly to the rear of the building plot, which historic mapping shows formerly contained gardens. The former gardens were completely built over along with the plot to the rear of No. 25, creating a large L-shaped space lit by glazed roof lights. It is not clear whether this was completed in a single phase or in multiple stages. By the time of the 1977 Goad insurance plan of Newark, this building was recorded as sitting vacant, and has since been repurposed as a wine merchants. The building was Grade II listed in 1950. (3)

Listed buildings slides, (Photograph). SNT2648.

<1> Pevsner N, 1979, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire 2nd ed., p 199 (Monograph). SNT4.

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

<3> Historic England, 2024, Newark on Trent, Historic Area Assessment by Historic England (Unpublished document). SNT6029.