Waterworks Pumping Station is a Grade II listed building in the Nottingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1995. Waterworks pumping station. 2 related planning applications.
Waterworks Pumping Station
- WRENN ID
- lost-newel-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Nottingham
- Constituency
- Nottingham East MP: Nadia Whittome (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1995
- Type
- Waterworks pumping station
- Address
- Waterworks Pumping Station, Ropewalk, City of Nottingham, NG1 5DU
- OS grid reference
- SK 564 400
- Coordinates
- 52.95527, -1.16125
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The waterworks pumping station, now a workshop, was built in 1850 for the Nottingham Waterworks Company. It is designed in the Gothic Revival style, constructed from red brick with ashlar dressings and features a hipped concrete tile roof. The building has a chamfered plinth, buttresses, a modillion cornice, and a coped parapet. It stands two storeys tall and consists of one block with three bays.
The main entrance, located on the south side, includes a segmental pointed doorway with late 20th-century doors and a screen, flanked by angle buttresses. Above the entrance is a double lancet window. Each side of the building has a central buttress flanked by double lancet windows, with three single lancets above. The north side features a single lancet and two smaller lancets above.
At the northwest corner, there is a square tower with two stages, which originally had a pyramidal roof. The lower stage displays diaper work and a single lancet, while the upper stage has a single lancet on each side. This pumping station was the first in a series built to extract water from artesian wells to enhance the city's water supply. It operated until 1880, when the Nottingham Corporation took over water services, and it was used as a garage starting in 1930.
Local climate
Waterworks Pumping Station 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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