Two C16 timber-framed cottages. (1)

3 houses. Late C16 and early C17, [No.] 44 refenestrated mid C19. (2)

C16 Box framed, crown post roof, jettied. (3)

A small three-bay house, originally jettied to the street front, dendrochronologically dated to the 14th century. It was subsequently divided into three cottages and then more recently, combined into two residences. The building is of timber-framed, jettied construction which has later been underbuilt in brick. It has a steeply pitched pantile roof with two gable and one ridge stack. The half bay is thought to have historically contained a smoke hood. Scientific dating has revealed that the building contains structural timbers of around 1330. There has been considerable discussion about whether the building was originally an open hall or was always a storeyed building. The dating of one joist to a date contemporary with the roof structure, and the lack of smoke blackening, suggest it was always floored. Reused timbers inside No.36 next door are surmised to have come from an earlier building on the same plot, possibly related to Nos 40-44. (4)

Fourteen samples were taken from oak timbers in this building. Six were taken from the main structure, including a tiebeam, wall plate, posts, and braces with the remaining being from first-floor joists. Prior to tree-ring analysis being carried out, this building was generally thought of as being sixteenth or seventeenth century. However, timbers integral to the main structure of the building are datbale to AD 1330. This would suggest that the building was constructed in or witihn a year or two of this date. Whether this building always had a floor or was originally built as an open hall with the floor inserted later has been debated. The samples taken from the floor joists produced a variety of dates from AD 1330 to AD 1620. It has been suggested that the building in its original form would have been an open hall; only later would a jettied floor be inserted. Some have concurred with this on the basis of the height above floor level of the tiebeams and the height above ground level (only 4m) for the building as a whole, together with the fact that the floor joists are not tied into the large post at the back of the building as one might expect contemporary timber to be. However, others thought it more likely that the jetty/first floor fored part of the original early fourteenth century structure with the floor frame being repaired or altered in the early seventeenth century when new and reused timbers were inserted. This hypothesis was based on the perceived difficulty in converting an open hall to a jettied uilding. Additionally, they felt that a date of the early seventeenth century for the insertion of the floor as a whole, ased on some of the joists being of this date, would be late. (5)

Listed buildings slides, 4 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> 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.