Description

NEWARK ON TRENT

SK7954SE CASTLEGATE
619-1/5/119 (North West side)
06/03/84 Former Gilstrap Library.
(Formerly Listed as:
CASTLE GATE
Gilstrap Library and Gatepiers)

GV II

Former public library, now disused. 1882 by William Henman of
Henman & Beddoes of Birmingham for William Gilstrap, a local
maltster who was mayor of Newark in 1888. Rear addition 1933,
in sympathetic style. Rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings
and plain tile roof with octagonal wooden lantern with leaded
ogee dome. Jacobean Revival style. Chamfered plinth, sill
band, moulded eaves, shouldered coped gables with ornate
finials, single gable stack. Chamfered, mullioned and
transomed windows throughout. Single storey plus attics and
basement. 3 bay triple gabled east front has a recessed
central bay containing a single storey crenellated porch
topped with crest and finial. Pointed doorway with shafts and
lintel inscribed "Gilstrap Library", flanked single 3 light
windows. Above and behind, a large 4 light window with
tympanum. To left, a crenellated square bay window with 5
lights. To right, a large 6 light window and above it a small
round window with trefoil tracery. 3 bay north front has a
central gabled square bay window, 6 lights, flanked by single
2 storey splayed bay windows with hipped roofs. West front has
to left a single gabled bay with with a 6 light window and
central addition, 1933. Single storey, 6 window range of 2
light windows, topped with parapet. Set back south bay has 2
windows.
(Buildings of England: N Pevsner, revised E Williamson:
Nottinghamshire: Harmondsworth: 1979-: 191).

Listing NGR: SK7969254022

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490609

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