Whitwell is a civil parish in the Bolsover District of Derbyshire, England. The parish contains 15 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are 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 village of Whitwell and the surrounding area. The listed buildings include churches, houses, farmhouses and farm buildings, a public house, a village pump, and a war memorial.
The church, which is in Norman style, was restored in 1880 by J. L. Pearson. It is built in sandstone with a tile roof, and consists of a nave with a south porch, a lower chancel, and a semicircular apse. The church has a mouldedplinth, a corbel table with carved figures, and a gabledbellcote at the east end of the nave. The gabled porch has four orders of colonnettes, with medallions, foliage scrolls, and zigzag and beakhead decoration.[2][3]
The church has been altered and extended during the centuries, and contains Norman and Decorated features. It is built in stone with roofs of lead and Welsh slate, and consists of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, north and south transepts, a chancel with a north vestry, and a west tower. The tower has two stages, diagonal buttresses, a 12th-century west doorway with one order of colonnettes, leaf capitals and zigzag decoration, and above it is a 12th-century round-arched window with a hood mould. On the south side is a clock face, the bell openings have two lights, and at the top is an embattledparapet with crocketed corner pinnacles.[4][5]
The farmhouse is in sandstone with quoins, and a roof partly hipped, and partly with copedgables and plain kneelers. There are two storeys. The south front is symmetrical with four bays, a central doorway with a mouldedhood mould, and casement windows. The east front is irregular, with four bays, and contains a doorway with a segmental arch within a moulded square frame, and a keystone. Most of the windows on this front are mullioned.[6]
The farmhouse is in sandstone on a plinth, with quoins, and a Welsh slate roof with stone copedgables and moulded kneelers. There are two storeys, and a hall range with flanking cross-wings. The central doorway has a moulded surround and half-columns, the windows are sashes with wedge stone lintels, and there is a staircase window. On the garden front is a gabled bay window.[7][8]
The farmhouse is in sandstone, and has a stone slate roof with copedgables and plain kneelers. There are two storeys and four bays. The doorway has a plain surround and the windows are casements. Attached on the left are outbuildings with a pantile roof, various openings and external steps.[11]
Originally a farmhouse and barn under a continuous roof, it is in sandstone with a hippedpantile roof. The building is set at right angles to the road, and has two storeys, and a front of four bays. The doorway has a segmental-arched head, to the right is a former cart entrance, and the windows are sliding sashes.[13]
The farmhouse is in sandstone with quoins, and a Welsh slate roof with decorative ridge cresting. There are two storeys and a symmetrical front of three bays. The central doorway has a moulded surround and a pedimented hood on moulded brackets, and the windows are sashes.[14]
The barn is in sandstone with a pantile roof. It contains a central cart entrance and a doorway with stable-type doors, above are two square openings, and there are two tiers of slit vents.[15]
The cart hovel is in sandstone with a pantile roof. In the centre bay is a pair of doors, and on each side are four bays of open cart entrances supported on square timber columns.[16]
The outbuilding containing a dovecote is in sandstone with a pantile roof. The dovecote is towards the left, it has a gabled roof, and contains doorways on three floors, with external steps leading to the middle door. In the gable is a rectangular louvred opening. To the left is a lean-to building with two doorways, and the range to the right contains doorways and windows, some blocked.[17]
The base of the pump is in sandstone, and consists of a plinth with two shallow steps. The pump is in cast iron, and is enclosed in a timber box with an overhanging top.[18]
The war memorial in the centre of The Square is in limestone. It has a hexagonal four-tiered plinth and a hexagonal pedestal, on which is a faceted column. At the top of the column are Gothicniches and a Celtic cross. On the sides of the pedestal are black marble plaques with inscriptions and the names of those lost in the two World Wars.[20]