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Mill Gate, NEWARK, NG24 4TR

Dates from about 1780 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1196436?section=official-list-entry

A handsome Georgian house of five bays and three storeys. Very plain, relying on its proportions and pedimented doorcase for effect. Late C18th - the listing states c1780. Grade II listed.

Grade II listed house of c1780 on Millgate, for many years it was the offices of The National Farmers Union, now the consulting rooms of Chiro Plus.

Old street in central Newark. The red brick houses have many narrow yards running between them.

A variety of buildings from a variety of periods through to the late 20th century. The nearest house, with the 'Taylor's Yard' plate, dates from around 1730. It retains horizontal ('Yorkshire') window sashes, which are common in the area. Next house is slightly later, about 1750. (See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3118071 ) The 3-storey house is from the latter part of the 18th century, and includes a carriage arch to a rear courtyard. The final building of this range includes a good 19th century shopfront. All this range is Listed Grade II. The 20th century buildings beyond are not listed!.

The east-facing elevation of the Grade II-listed former Thorpe's Warehouse. Although the premises were built in 1872 as a riverside barley store and malt house they were acquired by Newark Egg Packers Ltd in 1932. In either the 1980s or the early 1990s the building was rented out to Weston Mill Pottery but then it lay empty vacant between 2007-10. In 2011 planning permission was granted for its restoration and conversion into a number of high quality commercial suites and twelve or more apartments overlooking the canal basin and the River Trent. The project was completed in 2013 or 2014 with its original hand painted inscription “Thorpes Warehouse” restored.

This would have provided access to a narrow yard, not more than about 10 feet wide, with several dwellings giving on to it. Yards like these represented the worst of the slums that mid-20th century slum clearance programmes set out to eradicate. The space now often provides a decent back garden for the main house fronting the street.

Thomas Bradley took over the established Wellington Foundry of J & W Midworth, located in Northgate, in 1867. This wall tie is prominently lettered.

This view of a corner of the Grade II-listed former Thorpe's Warehouse highlights its riverside position. The gantry and the single storey work-shop type building are on the opposite side of the River Trent Basin, with a section of Newark's "Riverside Walk" passing in front of these lower structures.

Opposite the Catherine Carter Hair & Beauty Salon based within No. 25, Mill Gate, is a path leading to the southern side of River Trent. Close to the boundary wall, over which a section of the Newark's Riverside Walk can be viewed, is a very small public park known as Otter Park. It is named because of the existence of a sculpture depicting two bronze otters poised on a large piece of limestone rock. The sculpture was created by and donated c. 2009/10 by Judith Bluck (deceased), formerly of Yorkshire.