Description

NEWARK ON TRENT

SK7953NW MILLGATE
619-1/7/295 (North West side)
Millgate Folk Museum and The
Navigation Co. Brasserie

GV II

Former Trent navigation Co. warehouse and adjoining maltings,
now a museum and brasserie. Dated 1870 on the wall ties and
chimney base, with C19 and mid and late C20 alterations. The
maltings built by W Duke, builder, probably for one of the
Gilstrap family, maltsters, whose monogram appears on the wall
ties. Brick with slate roofs. Mostly regular fenestration with
segment headed openings. River frontage has the hipped
warehouse to left. 5 storeys; 6 window range with loft doors
in the third bay. T-plan. On the fourth floor, a hoist gallery
with struts. On the ground floor, a larger doorway under the
hoist, flanked by 2 smaller doorways. All these openings have
C20 glazing. Between the upper floors the inscription "Trent
navigation Co. Wharf & Warehouse". In the centre, a gabled
range, 4 storeys, 5 windows. In the right bay a tall round
headed glazing bar window covering 2 floors. In the second
bay, a small gabled hoist canopy, and altered hoist doors on
the second and third floors. On the ground floor, a larger
glazed hoist door. To the right, a lower half hipped range
with the base and coping of an octagonal chimney stack,
inscribed "W Duke Builder N...70". 2 storeys. To left, 2 small
windows. To right, between floors, a large C20 window. On the
ground floor, to left, 2 blocked round headed doorways and to
right, an altered round headed carriage opening. Right return,
to Mill Lane, has to right a segmental carriage opening with
stone quoins and dated keystone. To left, 2 windows. At the
rear, the warehouse has a 4 storey range, 4 windows, facing
the courtyard with a full width cantilevered stone gallery on
the first floor, reached by an external stone stair. Irregular
fenestration, with 3 large doorways on the ground floor.
Central range and lower adjoining range have similar
fenestration to the river front. Warehouse interior has
segmental brick arches on the ground floor and above, wooden
floors carried on round and cruciform iron piers. Maltings
have wooden floors and round iron piers.
(Buildings of England: N Pevsner, revised E Williamson:
Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 199).

Listing NGR: SK7936753725

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490936

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