Beckingham is a civil parish in the Bassetlaw District of Nottinghamshire, England. The parish contains 15 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Beckingham and the surrounding countryside. Most of the listed buildings are houses, farmhouses and associated structures, and the others include a church and its churchyard wall, three buildings associated with Beckingham railway station, and a war memorial.
The church has been altered and extended through the centuries, and it was restored in 1876 and in 1891–92. The church is built in stone with roofs of lead and slate, and consists of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a north aisle chapel, a chancel, and a west tower. The tower has four stages, a plinth, diagonal buttresses, a west doorway with a pointed arch and a hood mould, four string courses, clock faces, paired bell openings, gargoyles, and an embattledparapet with eight pinnacles.[2][3]
The farmhouse is in rendered brick, with cogged eaves, and a pantile roof with copedgables and kneelers. There are two storeys and attics, a double depth plan, and three bays. On the west front is a doorway with a fanlight and a hood, the north front has a canopied porch, and in the south front is a bow window. The other windows are a mix of casements and sashes, some horizontally-sliding, and some with segmental heads.[5]
The wall enclosing the churchyard is in red brick with stone coping, and it contains square gate piers. The north gateway has wrought iron gates, and an iron overthrow and lamp bracket.[6]
The house is in rendered brick on a plinth, with a sill band, a hippedslate roof at the front, and a gabledpantile roof on the rear wing. There are two storeys, and an L-shaped plan, with a front range of five bays, and a rear wing. In the centre is a doorway with a reeded surround, a fanlight, and a frieze with paterae. The windows are sashes, some horizontally-sliding, and one with a segmental head.[7]
The house is in pebbledashed brick on a renderedplinth, with mouldedeaves at the front, dentilled eaves at the rear, and a pantile roof with copedgables. There are two storeys, and an L-shaped plan, with a front range of five bays. The central doorway has a reeded surround, a round-headed fanlight, and a moulded hood. The windows are sashes, those in the ground floor with segmental heads, and in the right gable end is a round-headed sash window with Y-tracery. The barn, attached at the rear, is in brick with a hipped roof, two storeys and three bays, and it contains 20th-century openings.[8]
The house is in brick with stone dressings, floor bands, cogged eaves and a Welsh slate roof. There are two storeys and attics, and an L-shaped plan with a front of two bays. In the left bay is a doorway with a moulded surround, a rectangular fanlight with geometrical tracery, and a hood on moulded brackets. It is flanked by casement windows, to the right is a mullioned and transomed window, and the upper floors contain sash windows with segmental heads. On the south front is a two-storey cantedbay window with a pierced balustrade, and attached at the rear is a two-storey two-bay cottage.[2][9]
The pigeoncote and fodder store are in brick with pantile roofs. The pigeoncote has a floor band, an eaves band, cogged eaves, and copedgables. There are two storeys and three bays. In the centre is a stable door with a cogged lintel flanked by buttresses, above are three tiers of pigeon holes, and in each gable end are two tiers of pigeon holes. At the rear is a lean-to fodder store with dentilled eaves, and a central stable door flanked by slit vents.[10]
The pigeoncote and flanking stables are in brick with pantile roofs. The pigeoncote has two storeys, a square plan and a pyramidal roof. It contains a round-headed doorway with a rusticated surround and a semicircular fanlight, and above is a fixed round-headed window with imposts and a keystone. The stables contain a doorway with a segmental head, stable doors and fixed-light windows.[11]
The gazebo is in brick with stone dressings, a floor band, cogged eaves, and a pyramidal pantile roof with a finial. There are two storeys, a single bay and a square plan. Steps lead to the doorway, the windows are sashes, and all the openings have segmental heads.[2][12]
Originally the stationmaster's house for Beckingham railway station, it is in gault brick on a blue brick plinth, with dressings in red and blue brick and stone, a floor band, and a concrete slab roof. There are two storeys and an L-shaped plan, consisting of a range of four bays, the left wing projecting and gabled. On the left is a lean-to, and on the right is a single-storey single-bay former ticket office and a toilet block. The windows are sashes with segmental heads. To the right is a boundary wall about 25 metres (82 ft) long, in gault brick with stone coping and recessed red brick panels.[2][14]
The signal box is in gault and red brick, with timber framing in the upper part, a dentilledfloor band, and a slate roof with stone coping, decorative bargeboards and finials. There are two storeys and three bays, and on the north side is a wooden staircase leading to the doorway and a toilet enclosure. In the upper floor are horizontally-sliding sash windows.[2][15]
The cabin is in gault brick, with deep cogged eaves and a slate roof. There is a single storey and one bay. On the front is a sash window and in the south gable end is a doorway; both have segmental heads.[16]
The war memorial, which stands opposite All Saints' Church, is in Portland stone. It consists of a Latin cross on a narrow shaft on a square plinth, on a square base of three steps. On the plinth is an inscription and the names of those lost in the First World War. There is a stone plaque on the second step with the name of the man who died in the Second World War.[17]
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