South Muskham is a civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, England. The parish contains nine 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, two are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the villages of South Muskham and Little Carlton, and the surrounding area. The listed buildings consist of a church and associated structures, farmhouses and farm buildings, cottages, two viaducts and a road bridge.
The farmhouse originated as an aisled hall house, with cross-wings added in the mid-16th century, forming an H-shaped plan. It has a timber framed core with brick nogging, on plinths of brick and stone, it is partly rendered with remains of pargeting, and has tile hanging, and tile roofs with a single copedgable and kneelers. There are two storeys and a hall range of three bays, and projecting wings to the north with applied timber framing.[4][5]
The farm buildings have been extended. The earlier buildings are timber framed with rendered brick cladding, the later ones are in brick with dentilledeaves, and the roofs are pantiled with a single copedgable with kneelers. The buildings have one or two storeys, they form a U-shaped plan, and have fronts of two and three bays. Most of the windows are horizontally-sliding sashes. The buildings consist of a farmhouse with a service room, a stable with a granary above, and a pigsty.[4][6]
The churchyard boundary wall is in stone with stepped gabledcoping and some flat coping. It contains two wooden gates and posts, two square stone gate piers with pyramidal caps, and two 19th-century octagonal cast iron gate posts with finials, and a pair of wrought iron gates. In the wall is an inscribed and dated stone tablet.[7]
A house, later extended and subsequently divided. It is in brick with dentilledeaves and some cogged eaves, and a pantile roof with plain tile verges. There are two storeys and an L-shaped plan, with a front range of four bays. On the front is a porch and a doorway with a segmental head. The windows are a mix of casements, and sashes, most of these horizontally-sliding, some windows with segmental rubbed brick heads.[8]
The viaduct was designed by John Smeaton to carry the Great North Road. It is in red brick and consists of 18 round arches with buttresses between. The brick parapets have stone coping, and scrolled and ramped ends with round brick piers.[9]
The viaduct was designed by John Smeaton to carry the Great North Road. It is in red brick and consists of seven round arches with buttresses between. The brick parapets have stone coping, and scrolled and ramped ends with round brick piers.[10]
The lamp post in the churchyard is in cast iron. It has a tapered round shaft, with bands of Romanesque decoration and a foliate capital. The ladder rests have foliate ends, and there is a square tapered oil lamp.[11]
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