Nottingham Corporation Waterworks and Attached Area Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Nottingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1995. Waterworks.

Nottingham Corporation Waterworks and Attached Area Railings

WRENN ID
over-courtyard-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Nottingham
Constituency
Nottingham East MP: Nadia Whittome (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 November 1995
Type
Waterworks
Address
Nottingham Corporation Waterworks and Attached Area Railings, Castle Boulevard, City of Nottingham
OS grid reference
SK 570 393
Coordinates
52.94883, -1.15248
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nottingham Corporation Waterworks, also known as Castle Works, is a former waterworks depot that has been converted into offices. It was built in 1900 and features red brick with ashlar dressings, along with slate and sheet metal roofs. The building is designed in the Flemish Renaissance Revival style and includes a plinth and sill bands, as well as segment-arched openings with keystones. Most of the windows are 2-light casements.

The structure is two storeys high and consists of 7 by 13 bays, forming an L-shape on a corner site. It has equal returns and an angled corner entrance bay, which is highlighted by shaped gables. The entrance bay features a segment-arched cart opening with wrought-iron gates and small paired windows above. The gable includes a segmental pediment and a coat of arms.

On the left side facing Castle Boulevard, there are six windows and an off-centre door. The gabled end bay has a two-storey bay window on the left, with a door and a single window to the right, and two round-arched windows in the gable. The right side facing Castle Road has five windows on each floor and a gabled end bay with two windows. Beyond this, there is a similar range with seven windows, two of which are blank on the ground floor.

At the rear of the yard, there is a canopy with two bays that once had a glazed roof supported by cast-iron columns. Additionally, there is a wrought-iron area railing outside.

Local climate

Nottingham Corporation Waterworks and Attached Area Railings sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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