Newmarket Row

Newmarket Row comprises a terrace of shops and a public house with accommodation above, dating back to approximately 1775 and largely rebuilt between 1861 and 1863 by Hickes & Isaac, with later 20th-century alterations. The design is by Thomas Baldwin for the original scheme. It is a limestone ashlar building with Welsh slate roofs, with the façade of No. 5 painted.

The building forms a single-depth terrace backing onto the Public Market, with the main Market entrance located centrally. No. 5 also has a side elevation facing Boat Stall Lane. The terrace is arranged with eleven bays in a balanced 2:3:1:3:2 arrangement, with a central projection accentuated by long and short rusticated quoins. The central market entrance features panelled double doors topped by a semicircular head, a radiating fanlight, a crowning cornice, and a pediment bearing the City’s arms. The ground floor features shopfronts of varying styles; No. 2 has a late 19th-century shopfront with plate glass and decorative lighting, while Nos. 3 and 4 have matching 20th-century shopfronts designed to imitate Victorian styles. No. 5, "The Rummer," replicates the style of No. 2 and incorporates a modern eight/four-pane window and an arched doorway. The elevated bays on either side have three windows each. Windows in Nos. 2 and 3 are late 19th-century plate glass sashes, whilst those in Nos. 4 and 5 are sash windows in the style of the late 18th century, with six panes; the central window of No. 4 is blind. A continuous sill band runs along the façade. A crowning cornice and parapet top the building, with a mansard roof punctuated by six flat-topped dormers, all with six/six-pane sashes except for No. 5. Four ashlar chimney stacks with decorative pots rise above the roofline. The Boat Stall Lane elevation of No. 5 is three bays wide, with tripartite windows featuring blind outer lights flanking an arched doorway on the ground floor, and a single sash window above. Ground floor windows are plain sashes, whilst the first-floor windows are eight/eight and six/six-pane sashes. A platband runs along the first floor. This elevation also has two flat-topped dormers.

The interior was not inspected, but the ground floor of No. 5 has undergone significant alteration and includes a damaged 18th-century staircase.

Originally designed as the river frontage for Baldwin’s Guildhall complex, the market stalls were designed by Hickes & Isaac following a competition. No. 5 has operated as a public house since at least 1799, when a lease was granted for the Grove Tavern, a name the establishment has retained. Newmarket Row appears in its present form in a 1788 drawing of Pulteney Bridge by Thomas Malton.