Mackworth is an electoral ward in the city of Derby, England. The ward contains 23 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. All the listed buildings are designated at Grade II, the lowest of the three grades, which is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest".[1] The ward is to the northwest of the centre of the city and is almost entirely residential. Most of the listed buildings are houses, and the others consist of the entrance screen to a former gaol, a former toll house, a public house, two schools, one active and the other used for different purposes, a set of railings, and former almshouses.
The entrance screen to the prison was designed by Francis Goodwin, and the end towers were added in 1832. It is in stone, and in the centre is an entrance flanked by massive Tuscan columns, and with a triglyphfrieze, and a modillioncornice. The wings have four bays divided by pilasters, and they contain narrow windows. At the top is a small parapet and a central stepped pediment.[2][3]
Two houses combined into one, it is stuccoed, on a plinth, with projecting eaves and a hippedslate roof. There are two storeys, three bays, and a recessed wing on the left. In the centre of the main block is a doorway with pilasters and a pediment, and in the recessed bay is a doorway with a cornice hood on brackets. The windows are sashes.[4]
A former toll house, it is rendered, with a sill band and a slate roof. There are two storeys, and two bays with splayed sides. In the centre is a large segmental recess containing a doorway. On the sides of the splay are blocked windows, and the upper floor contains two sash windows.[5]
A pair of red brick houses with dog-tooth eaves and a slate roof. There are three storeys and two bays. The doorways have cambered heads, and the windows are horizontally-sliding sashes, those in the middle floor with cambered heads.[6]
A detached stuccoed house with end pilasters, a sill band, bold lined eaves, and a hippedslate roof. There are two storeys and three bays, the middle bay projecting slightly. In the centre is a porch with pilasters and a doorway with a rectangular fanlight, and the windows are sashes.[7][10]
A detached stuccoed house with floor bands, bold lined eaves, and a hippedslate roof. There are two storeys and two bays. The windows are sashes, those in the ground floor with shallow pediments. On the left return is a porch with pilasters, imposts, a plain doorway on the front, and a round-arched window on the side.[7][11]
The public house, probably with an earlier core, is in painted brick with modillioneaves. There are two storeys and four bays. On the front are two doorways, one with a rectangular fanlight, and the windows are casements.[13]
A red brick house on a plinth, with bold lined eaves, and a hippedslate roof. There are two storeys, three bays, a single-bay recessed wing on the left, and a projecting gabled wing. In the centre of the main block is a cast iron trellis porch with an upswept lead roof, and a doorway with a rectangular fanlight, The windows are sashes with channelled wedge lintels.[14]
A house on a corner site in red brick, stuccoed on the front, on a plinth, with end pilasters decorated with Greek key ornament, a sill band, a cornice, bold lined eaves, and a hippedslate roof. There are two storeys and three bays, the middle bay projecting slightly. In the centre is a cast iron trellis porch with an upswept lead roof, and a doorway with a rectangular fanlight, and the windows are sashes.[17]
Originally the Diocesan School, it was designed by H. I. Stevens and later used for other purposes. The building is in red brick with stone dressings, bands, an eavescornice and a parapet. The building is on a corner site, and has two storeys, three bays on Friar Gate, five on Vernon Street, and an angled bay on the corner. The angled bay has a gable with an obeliskfinial, and contains an oriel window, over which is a clock face in the gable. On the Friar Gate front is a doorway with a moulded surround, a pointed arched head and a hood mould. The windows are mullioned and transomed with hood moulds.[7][19]
A terrace of five stuccoed houses with floor and sill bands, and a slate roof, hipped on the left. Nos. 14 and 15 have two bays each and doorways with flat heads and rectangular fanlights. No. 16 has two bays and a round-arched doorway with a semicircular fanlight. No. 17 is gabled, and contains a two-light window in the upper floor and a tripartite window in the ground floor, and No. 18 has a square bay window. The windows are sashes, those in Nos. 16–18 in mouldedarchitraves.[20]
A detached roughcast house with end pilasters, a floor band, a shallow cornice, bold lined eaves, and hippedslate roofs. There are two storeys, three bays, and a recessed single-bay extension on the right. In the centre is a doorway with pilasters and a rectangular fanlight and to the right is a tripartite window, together forming a bay window. Most of the other windows are sashes in mouldedarchitraves, and in the angle between the main part and the extension is an external stairway leading to an upper doorway.[7][21]
A terrace of four stuccoed houses on a plinth, with pilasters at the ends and between the houses, a sill band, bold lined eaves, and a hippedslate roof. There are two storeys and each house has three bays. In the centre is a square porch with Tuscan columns, a frieze and a cornice, the outer houses have doorways with pilasters, a frieze and a cornice, and the windows are sashes.[7][22]
The school is in red brick with dressings in blue brick, moulded brick and stone, and has Welsh slate roofs with copedgables. There are two storeys, a main block with three wide bays, the middle bay gabled, a recessed two-bay wing to the left, a linking bay and a gabled bay to the right, and to the right of that is a three-story three stage tower. The boundary is enclosed by a red brick wall with railings and three cast iron gates.[25]
A range of almshouses, later used for other purposes, in red brick with stone dressings, and a tile roof with gables, bargeboards and finials. There are two storeys and attics, and eight bays, the outer bays projecting and gabled. On the front are five cantedbay windows, and four doorways with rectangular fanlights. The windows are mullioned, and on the front is an inscribed stone tablet.[7][26]
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