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Cellar under No 8 Castle Gate is a surviving medieval underground chamber situated in central Nottingham, beneath a property on Castle Gate. The cellar is structurally significant as a remnant of Nottingham's medieval urban development and demonstrates the constructional methods employed in the town during the medieval period. The chamber represents the building practices characteristic of medieval Nottingham, where such cellars frequently served domestic or commercial storage purposes. This feature survives as evidence of the town's medieval occupation and use of subterranean space for practical purposes.
Cellar under No 8, Castle Gate is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002922. View the official record →
Cellar under No 8 Castle Gate is a surviving medieval underground chamber situated in central Nottingham, beneath a property on Castle Gate. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002922.
Cellar under No 8, Castle Gate is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1002922.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Caves under Nos 3-7 Middle Pavement (0.2 km), Caves at Drury Hill (0.3 km), Nottingham Castle (0.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cellar under No 8, Castle Gate's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Cellar under No 8, Castle Gate stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.