Dogdyke Pumping Station

TF 25 NW TATTERSHALL DOGDYKE Dogdyke Pumping Station 6/51 II

Pumping station. 1855. Red brick, with slate roof having stone coped gables. Single storey, 3 bay front having central planked double doors with to left a further planked door set in a recessed semi-circular archway. To right a further open semi- circular archway to pump wheel chamber, and wooden sluice gates. Immediately above the central door is a large semi-circular headed fixed glazing bar cast iron light which is flanked by single smaller semi-circular openings with timber fixed lights. In the gable a rectangular ashlar datestone with 1855 in raised letters. On the side a cast iron counterbalance regulator and to the rear a pulley with chain to cast iron sluice gate, and the rear arch and wall to the wheel chamber, with rounded ashlar coping. Interior retains single cylinder rotative beam-engine built to replace an earlier wind pump, replaced by a diesel engine in 1940. The only remaining working steam engine in Lincolnshire. Scheduled Ancient Monument No.264.

Listing NGR: TF2057255824