Bestwood St. Albans is a former civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, England. The former parish contains 19 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, four are at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The former parish contains Bestwood Village and an area to the east. The listed buildings include a country house, later a hotel, and associated structures, smaller houses, a church and its lychgate, a water pumping station and associated structures, the winding house and headstocks of a former colliery, an office building, and a war memorial.
The gate lodge is in painted rendered brick on a deep plinth, with a hippedslate roof. There is a single storey and three bays. In the centre is a doorway with a plain surround, and the windows are iron-framed lattice casements.[2]
A country house designed by S. S. Teulon, later extended, and subsequently converted into a hotel. It is in brick with polychrome decoration, dressings in stone and moulded brick, corbelledeaves, traceriedbalustrades, and slate roofs with copedgables and finials. There are three storeys and basements, and an irregular C-shaped plan, with a front of five bays. On the west front is a tower porch, a pointed doorway with a moulded surround, and an octagonal corner tower with a pyramidal roof. The windows are a mix of sashes and lancets, a Diocletian window, and gabled dormers. To the north is a chapel and a service range, with crow-stepped gables and a bell turret. On the south side is a later drill hall with a timber framed upper storey. In the garden is a stone terrace wall with double stairs flanked by brick curving walls.[3][4]
The bakery, later converted into a house, was designed by S. S. Teulon. It is in brick with ornate brick dressings, a dentilledstring course and eaves, and a slate roof. There are two storeys and an L-shaped plan, with three bays. The doorway has a pointed arch, and the windows are casements of various sizes.[5][6]
The walls and gateway were designed by S. S. Teulon, and are in brick with stone dressings. The walls enclose a square area with sides of about 80 metres (260 ft). In the south wall is a gateway with a pointed arch, and a crowstepped gable with a finial. It contains wrought iron gates, and there are flanking piers with square finials.[7]
The stable court was designed by S. S. Teulon, and has been converted into houses and garages. It is in polychrome brick on a chamferedplinth, with dressings in stone and brick, a dentilledstring course, and slate roofs with copedgables and finials. There are two storeys and a square plan with a central courtyard and ranges of 13 by eight bays. On the north side is a gateway with a pointed arch, over which is an oriel window, and a clock with a gabled canopy. To its left is a two-storey square tower with a bell turret and a pyramidal roof. The ranges contain doorways, casement windows and gabled dormers.[5][8]
An estate church designed by S. S. Teulon, with a porch added in 1871. It is in stone with slate roofs, and consists of a nave and a chancel with an apse under a continuous roof, and west and south porches. At the west end, the porch is gabled and has a pointed entrance with a moulded surround flanked by shafts, above which is a wheel window, a trefoil, and a gabled bell turret. The other windows are lancets with chamfered surrounds and polychrome heads.[10][11]
The lychgate at the entrance to the churchyard has stone walls, a timber superstructure, and a tile roof. There are two moulded posts, and double arch braces.[12]
The water pumping station was designed for the Nottingham Water Company by Thomas Hawksley in Venetian Gothic Revival style, and has since been converted for other uses. The building is in polychromatic brick and sandstone on a plinth, with a mouldedcornice, ornate iron roof railings and finials, and a hippedslate roof. There are two storeys and a basement, an engine house with sides of eight and five bays, a boiler house, a coal store, and a chimney disguised as a tower.[13][14]
At the west entrance to the ground are four square stone piers on chamferedplinths, with foliate capitals and pyramidal caps. Between them are scrolled cast iron gates and wickets. There are two similar piers at the east entrance, and a cast iron gate. The curved boundary walls are in stone with stepped gabledcoping.[15]
The serpentine cooling pond has stone sides with chamferedcoping, and is about 150 metres (490 ft) long and 50 metres (160 ft) wide. At the west end are two cast iron gas lamps with broached square bases, tapered octagonal stems, foliate ornament, and glass globes with porcelain finials.[13][16]
The lodge is in brick on a chamferedplinth, with stone dressings, a dentilledcornice and eaves, and a slate roof with copedgables and iron finials. There are two storeys, and an L-shaped plan with three bays. On the west front is a wing with a hipped square bay window, and in the angle is a round-headed doorway with a fanlight and a hipped hood on curved brackets. At the north end is a bay window with a parapet, and the windows are lancets with round and pointed polychrome heads.[13][17]
The lodge is in brick on a chamferedplinth, with stone dressings, a dentilledcornice and eaves, and a slate roof with copedgables and iron finials. There are two storeys, and an L-shaped plan with three bays. On the east front is a wing with a hipped square bay window, and in the angle is a round-headed doorway with a fanlight and a hipped hood on curved brackets. At the north end is a bay window with a parapet, and the windows are lancets with round and pointed polychrome heads.[13][21]
The house for the winding engine has a concrete engine bed and plinth, and the rest of the building is in brick with stone dressings, mouldedstring courses and cornices, and a hippedslate roof. There are three storeys and a square plan with three bays, and a service wing to the east with two and three storeys and a parapet. The ground floor is in rusticated stone, and contains flat-headed windows. The middle floor has quoins, and contains two-light windows with round heads and rusticated voussoirs, and in the top floor are two-light mullioned windows. The engine house is joined to the headstocks, which has concrete posts, iron lattice stays, pulleys and cage guides.[22][23]
An office building for the Bestwood Coal and Iron Company designed by Thomas Worthington in Gothic Revival style. It is in red brick with bands and dressings in stone, and a slate roof with scalloped terracotta ridge tiles. There are two storeys, a rectangular main range with wings to the north and west, and a clock tower. The entrance is through a gabled two-storey porch that has a four-centred arched opening and a doorway with a fanlight, and the windows are sashes. The tower is square with four stages, clock faces on the north and south sides, and paired arch openings in the top stage, over which are dentilledeaves and a pyramidal roof. On the north side of the tower is a niche containing a shield with initials.[24][25]
The war memorial is in a railed enclosed by a road junction, and is in Portland stone. It consists of a bronze cross on a Roman Doric column with a mouldedcapital. The column stands on a cruciform concave-sided moulded base on a round moulded plinth of three steps. On the column is a bronze tablet, and on the base are inscribed panels.[26]
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