27 AND 28, MARKET PLACE (See details for further address information)

NEWARK ON TRENT

SK7953NE MARKET PLACE 619-1/8/234 (East side) 29/09/50 Nos.27 & 28

GV II*

Includes: Nos.1,3,5 BRIDGE STREET. House, now offices and shops. c1730, with late C19 and C20 alterations. Brick with stone dressings and hipped slate roof, with 2 ridge and single rear wall stacks. Plinth, incomplete first floor band, second floor band, deeply coved eaves. First and second floor windows have keystones. 3 storeys plus attics; 5 window range of segment headed 12 pane sashes. Above, 5 similar flat headed sashes. Above again, 2 pedimented dormers with 2-light casements. Ground floor has an elaborate central stone doorcase with with moulded segmental pediment on double moulded scroll brackets. 7-panel door with bull's eye window in tympanum. To left, 2 restored late C19 shopfronts with early and late C20 alterations. To right, Late C19 corner shopfront with panelled pilasters and scroll brackets to fascia, continued on the right return. Right return, 4 windows, has similar fenestration to the front, with a single dormer. The left windows on each floor are blank. Ground floor has C19 shopfront to left. To right, 2 smaller shopfronts, the right one remodelled late C20, each with a single window and recessed glazed door. Interior has C18 dogleg stair with moulded handrail. This building housed the printing press where Byron's first work (Hours of Idleness, 1806) was produced.

Listing NGR: SK7994253880