Babworth is a civil parish in the Bassetlaw District of Nottinghamshire, England. The parish contains 21 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, one is at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the villages of Babworth and Ranby, and is otherwise rural. The listed buildings include three country houses, their lodges and associated structures. The other listed buildings are a church, houses and cottages, a public house, a canal bridge, a commemorative stone, and a war memorial.
The church has been altered and extended through the centuries, including a restoration in 1859–62, and a further restoration in 1877–78 by J. Loughborough Pearson. It is built in stone with slate roofs, and consists of a nave, a north aisle, a south porch, a chancel, a north vestry, and a west tower. The tower has two stages, diagonal buttresses, a three-light west window, a clock face on the south side, and a string course, above which are two-light bell openings, two gargoyles, and an embattledparapet with corner crocketedpinnacles. Most of the body of the church also has embattled parapets and crocketed pinnacles.[2][3]
An inn, later three cottages, the building is in red brick with a floor band, dentilledeaves, and a pantile roof with copedgables and kneelers. There is an L-shaped plan, with a central range of two storeys and two bays, flanking projecting gabled wings with two storeys and attics, a lean-to on the right with a doorway, and a six-bay rear wing. In the centre is a pair of doorways and the windows are casement; all the openings have segmental heads.[4]
The farm buildings are in brick, partly rendered and stone, with hippedpantile roofs. The barn has two storeys and a loft and contains a central doorway with a segmental arch, and blocked slit vents. Projecting to the right is a wing with two storeys and eleven bays containing doorways, stable doors and casement windows.[7]
A country house later used as a school, most of it dating from about 1910. It is in red brick and red sandstone with some yellow brick, and slate roofs with copedgables and kneelers. The later part is on a plinth, with quoins and floor bands. The south front has two storeys and attics, and three gabled bays. The outer bays project slightly and contain two-storey bay windows, above which is a three-light mullioned window. In the middle bay is a single-storey bay window, over which is a mullioned and transomed window, and a sundial in the gable. The west front has ten bays, dentilledeaves and an embattledparapet. It contains a single-storey three-bay porch, and a single-storey bay window. In the earlier part are bow windows.[8][9]
A country house, possibly with an earlier core, in stone and rendered brick with slate roofs, and an L-shaped plan. The south, garden, front has two storeys and attics, and seven bays. The middle three bays project and have a floor band, four Doricpilasters, an entablature with triglyphs, and a pediment. The east front also has two storeys and attics, seven bays, and a pediment. In the centre is a Doric porch and a doorway with a fanlight, and the windows in both fronts are sashes. Elsewhere, there are further extensions.[10][11]
To the south of the hall are two terraces enclosed by rendered brick walls with stone coping, each containing brick piers, stone orbs, and a wooden door. At the angles are urns with festoons, and between the terraces is a flight of seven steps flanked by piers with flower containers. The east side of the lower terrace bows out.[12]
The lodge is stuccoed, on a plinth, with dentilledeaves and a pantile roof, hipped on the right. There are two storeys and three bays, the left two bays projecting under a pyramidal roof, and a single-storey single-bay extension on the left with a hipped roof. The doorway has a plain surround, the windows are horizontally-sliding sashes, and in the west wall is a cantedbay window on brackets.[13]
A commemorative stone in Morton Park marking the place where Roman coins were found. It is a square stone 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) high with a shaped top and an inscribed plaque.[14]
The lodge is in rendered stone, with a lean-to in rendered brick on the right, overhanging eaves, and a hippedslate roof. There are two storeys and two bays, and the windows are casements.[16]
The stable block is in stone and red brick on a stone plinth, and the roofs are slated. It has a quadrangle plan with a cottage on the east; the cottage has a single storey and an attic, and otherwise there is a single storey. The west front has eight bays and contains six carriage doorways and single doorways with fanlights, all with rusticated surrounds and keystones, and in the centre is a clock. Elsewhere, most of the openings have rusticated wedge lintels.[5][17]
The public house is in red brick with stone dressings and a hippedslate roof. There are two storeys and three bays. In the centre is a protruding porch containing a doorway with a fanlight, and the windows are sashes with wedge lintels. Attached to the left is an outbuilding in stone with a pantile roof, containing a doorway and casement windows.[18]
This is bridge No. 51, carrying Old Blyth Road over the Chesterfield Canal. It is in brick with squared stone coping, and consists of a single semi-elliptical arch. There are springing stones to the arch, and the swept wings end in piers.[19]
The farmhouse is in red brick, partly rendered and painted, with dentilledeaves, and a hippedslate roof with red ridge tiles. There are two storeys and three bays, and to the left is an extension with a single storey and an attic and two bays. The doorway has a fanlight, the windows are sashes, and all the openings have segmental heads.[20][21]
The farmhouse is in red brick with stone dressings, a mouldedcornice, and a hippedpantile roof. There are two storeys and attics, and three bays. The central doorway has a surround of piers with extended capitals and a projecting hood, and has a segmental fanlight. The doorway is flanked by cantedbay windows with parapets, and the upper floors contain sash windows with segmental heads. To the right is a single-storey single-bay extension, and at the rear are later extensions.[22]
A group of six cottages, later combined into one house, it is in red brick with stone dressings, and a tile roof with stone copedgables and kneelers. There are two storeys, a front of three gabled bays, the outer wings projecting slightly, and a right cross-wing. In the centre is a gabled porch containing an arched entrance with voussoirs, and an arched doorway with a fanlight. The windows are mullionedcasements, in the middle gable is a decorative stone shield, and the outer gables contain arrow slits.[10][23]
The outbuilding is in brick with pantile roofs. It is in one and two storeys, and has seven bays. The building contains doorways with plain surrounds and casement windows, and all the openings have segmental arches.[24]
The rectory, later used for other purposes, is in stuccoed brick, and has slate roofs with copedgables and bargeboards. The south front has two storeys and an attic, four bays, a protruding cross-wing, and a two-storey cantedbay window with a conical roof and a finial. In the centre is a doorway with a fanlight, and to the left of the front is a two-storey five-sided bay window. In the gable end of the cross-wing is a bow window, and on the cross-wing is a two-storey bowed bay window. Attached to the house is the former game larder that has a polygonal bay and a conical roof. The windows in the house are sashes.[5][25]
The lodge to the former Morton Hall, now demolished, is in red and blue brick with stone dressings, on a plinth, and has a hippedslate roof with decorative ridge tiles. There is a single storey and attics, and a front of two bays. In the left bay is a timber gabled open porch with a slate roof. Above it is a two-light casement window with a mullion, over which is a small round window, and a copedgable with kneelers and orb finials. On the west front is a similar gable, and below it is a cantedbay window.[10][26]
The war memorial is in the churchyard of St Matin's Church, and is in limestone. It consists of a cross with the Crucifixion of Jesus carved in relief, standing on a low plinth on a square stone base. On the plinth and the base are inscriptions and the names of those lost in the First World War.[27]
