Newark-on-Trent is a market town, an inland port and a civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, England. The town and parish contain over 360 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, four are listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, eleven are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The history of the town is reflected in its buildings, from the remains of the 12th-century castle, through a number of surviving timber framed buildings, to the many Georgian buildings of the 18th century. In the 15th and 16th centuries, wool merchants thrived in the town, followed by drapers, mercers and cloth merchants. By the 18th century, the town was an important staging post on the Great North Road. The town is on the River Trent, which was partly canalised in the late 18th century, encouraging industries including malting, brewing and engineering.
Most of the listed buildings are houses and associated structures, shops and offices. To the north of the town, the Great North Road is carried on a causeway including listed arches, culverts and a viaduct. The other listed buildings include the remains of the castle, churches and chapels, public houses and hotels, a market cross, schools, warehouses, civic buildings, bridges, former maltings, breweries, a water pump and trough, cemetery buildings, railway buildings, banks, a drinking fountain, a war memorial and telephone kiosks. __NOTOC__
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Grade CriteriaI Buildings of exceptional interest, sometimes considered to be internationally importantII* Particularly important buildings of more than special interestII Buildings of national importance and special interest
Buildings Name and locationPhotographDateNotesGradeNewark Castle remainsThe castle, at one time a residence, is now a ruin. The earlier parts are in limestone, and some of the later parts are in sandstone. The castle has a quadrangular plan. Along the northwest side is a curtain wall, with towers in the middle and at the ends, and a gatehouse on the northeast side. The gatehouse has three storeys, it is roofless, and contains semicircular arches. The towers have four storeys, and between the north and central tower is a two-storey oriel window. Some of the other windows are mullioned, some have pointed heads, and others have a single light.St Mary Magdalene Church and railingThe church has been altered and extended through the centuries, including restorations in the 19th century. It consists of a nave and a chancel under a continuous roof with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a north porch, a south porch with a library, north and south transepts, chantry chapels, a crypt, and an engaged west steeple. The steeple has a tower with four stages, angle buttresses, string courses, a quatrefoil frieze, a corbel table, and crocketed corner pinnacles, surmounted by an octagonal broach spire with four tiers of gabled lucarnes and a weathercock. On the west side is a doorway with a moulded surround, shafts and a hood mould, above which is a five-light lancet window, and a four-bay blind arcade. There are clock faces on all fronts, and two-light bell openings, over which is a crocketed gable. Along the body of the church are embattled parapets, and outside the church are spearhead wrought iron railings on a stone plinth.Former White Hart HotelThe hotel, later used for other purposes, has been altered and extended through the centuries. It is timber framed with rendered stone and brick nogging, close studding, and pantile roofs with plain tile verges. The front range has three storeys, the upper storeys jettied, and three bays. In the ground floor is a 20th-century shop front, and a carriageway to the left. The upper floors have continuous windows with 24 lights, mullions and traceried heads. Below the windows are decorated bressummers, under which are plaster figures of saints with crocketed canopies. At the rear is a jettied glazed gallery, an east wing, a south range, and a three-storey stair turret.40–44 Carter GateThree houses, later two shops, in close studded timber framing with rendered nogging, rendered underbuild, coved eaves, and a pantile roof. There are two storeys, the upper storey jettied with a bressummer, and four bays. The ground floor contains a carriage opening with, to its right a 19th-cengtury shop front with panelled pilasters and a two-light mullioned window, and to its left a doorway with a bootscraper flanked by horizontally-sliding sash windows. The upper floor contains three similar windows, and a casement window.Beaumond CrossThe market cross, moved to its present site in the late 20th century, was restored in 1778 and 1801. It is in stone, and has an octagonal plinth on four steps, an octagonal pedestal, and a tapered clustered shaft with a tiered finial and a cap. At the foot of the shaft is a gabled niche containing a figure, and on the pedestal is an inscribed brass plate.Former Woolpack public house1452The public house, later named The Prince Rupert, is timber framed, the ground floor in brick, with a pantile roof. There are two storeys and two bays, the upper storey of the right bay jettied on curved brackets. In the centre is a doorway with a fanlight flanked by casement windows, and the upper floor contains small sash windows. At the rear is a 19th-century wing and a 20th-century addition, both in brick.Governor's House1474A house later used for other purposes, it is timber framed, with a stone and brick underbuild, rendered nogging and a pantile roof. The front has close studding, and the upper floors are coved and jettied, with billeted bressummers, coved eaves, and coped gables. There are three storeys, an L-shaped plan, a front range of three bays, and a long rear wing. In the ground floor is a 20th-century shop front and to the right is an entry. At the rear is a jettied turret.22 and 24 KirkgateA house on a corner site, later used for other purposes, it is timber framed with arch braces and rendered nogging, the ground floor in colourwashed brick, and a tile roof. There are two storeys, the upper storey jettied on brackets, four bays on Kirkgate and three on Middlegate. There is a doorway on Kirkgate, and another in the angled corner, and the windows either have a single pane or are casements.Queen's Head public houseThe public house is timber framed with rendered nogging, brick underbuilding, sprocketed eaves and a tile roof. The upper floors are jettied on curved brackets and contain close studding. There are three storeys and three bays. In the ground floor is a double door with a fanlight flanked by casement windows. The middle floor contains a central canted oriel window, and the other windows are casements. At the rear is a later extension in brick, and inside the public house is exposed timber framing.Former Magnus School, Headmaster's house and English School1532The oldest part is the former grammar school, to which the headmaster's house was added in 1817, and the English School at the rear in 1835. The grammar school has a timber framed core with walls in stone and brick and a tile roof. On the front facing the street are a three-light mullioned window, a single-light window, a doorway with a pointed arch over which is an inscribed tablet, and a blocked doorway with a Tudor arch and a hood mould. The rear range has two storeys and attics and seven bays. Projecting on the left is the headmaster's house, in brick, with a slate roof, three storeys and five bays, the middle bay projecting under a pediment. The central doorway has pilasters and an open pediment, above it are round-headed windows, and the other windows are sashes with flat rubbed brick heads. The English School is in brick with a hipped pantile roof and a single storey. Its porch has a shaped coped gable with a crest and ball finials. |align="center" | |- |4 Queen Head's Court | |align="center"| |A house later used for other purposes, the lower floor in brick, the upper floor jettied, in close studded timber framing and rendered brick nogging, and a tile roof with sprocketed eaves. In the right gable end are arched braces, a casement window, and a bow window below. |align="center" | |- |Newark Odinist Temple | |align="center"| |The chapel is in limestone on a plinth, and has a stone slate roof with coped gables, and a tent-roofed wooden bell turret. There is a single storey and a single cell. In the east and north sides are three-light mullioned widows, the south side contains a doorway with a chamfered and moulded surround, and in the west gable is a crest. |align="center" | |- |40–44 Castlegate | |align="center"| |Three houses in a row with a timber framed core, the ground floor encased in brick, the upper floor jettied and rendered, and with a pantile roof, the left gable coped. There are two storeys, and the left house also has an attic, and three bays. On the front are three doorways, one with a Gothic-arched bootscraper. Most of the windows are horizontally-sliding sashes, and there is an inserted box window. |align="center" | |- |37 and 39 Kirkgate | |align="center"| |Two houses, later used for other purposes, they are timber framed with rendered brick nogging and pantile roofs, and each house has two storeys, the upper storey jettied. The left house has four bays, box framing, and projecting eaves on wooden brackets. In the ground floor is a box-shaped bay window, to the left is an elaborately moulded doorcase, and to the right is a blocked recessed doorway. The upper floor contains two horizontally-sliding sash windows. The right house has close studding, in the ground floor is a doorway with a sash window to the left and a shop window and an entry to the right, and in the upper floor are horizontally-sliding sash windows. |align="center" | |- |34 Millgate | |align="center"| |A former public house, later a private house, with outbuildings at the rear. The house has a timber framed core, encased in brick and with a slate roof. There are two storeys, two bays and a rear wing, and on the front are a doorway and sash windows, all with segmental heads. The rear wing has a pantile roof and contains horizontally-sliding sash windows, Beyond that is an outbuilding containing a hatch, a loading door, garage doors and a casement window. |align="center" | |- |1 Parliament Street | |align="center"| |A presbytery, later used for other purposes, it is in brick on a chamfered plinth, with brick dressings, moulded floor bands, quoins, and slate roofs with coped gables. There are three storeys and fronts of three and two bays. The entrance front has two gabled bays, and contains a porch with a flat hood on fluted iron columns, and a doorway with a moulded surround and a fanlight. To its right is a canted bay window, and the other windows are sashes. On the right is a two-story extension containing a doorway, a sash window and a casement window. |align="center" | |- |The Friary | |align="center"| |A house later remodelled, extended, and divided into a house and flats. It is in stone with dressings in brick and stone, and roofs of slate and tile. The eastern front has a plinth, quoins, three storeys and three bays. There is a porch with a parapet and a datestone, and it contains a doorway with a Tudor arch and hood mould, and the windows are sashes. In the right return is a three-light mullioned bay window, and the left return contains mullioned windows and two box dormers. The later north and east wings and porch are in Gothic style. |align="center" | |- |55 Millgate | |align="center"|