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The Ossington Coffee Tavern and Hostelry, Newark. c1881-2.

The Ossington Coffee Tavern and Hostelry, Newark is also known by the name of The Ossington Coffee Palace and was opened in 1882. Designed as a copy of a 17C Hostelry, it was to be a temperance hotel and coffee place to lure drunks away from the towns public houses!

 

Built in the style of a 17thC Hostelry, it was the idea of Charlotte, Viscountess Ossington who was daughter of the 4th Duke of Portland and was designed as a Temperance Hotel - no alcohol!

The ground floor was originally the coffee place wth next door stabling for horses and even a 19thC bowling alley.

 

The building is now apartments on the upper floor with the bottom area being shared by a business and the Zizzi Restaurant.

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Uploaded on November 22, 2019