West Lodge at Bestwood Pumping Station is a Grade II listed building in the Gedling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1987. Lodge.

West Lodge at Bestwood Pumping Station

WRENN ID
sombre-tin-crimson
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gedling
Constituency
Gedling MP: Michael Payne (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 April 1987
Type
Lodge
Address
West Lodge at Bestwood Pumping Station, Mansfield Road, Bestwood Village
OS grid reference
SK 579 483
Coordinates
53.02888, -1.1375
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

West Lodge at Bestwood Pumping Station is a lodge built in 1871, designed in the Gothic Revival style. It is constructed of brick with a slate roof and features ashlar dressings. The building has a chamfered plinth, a dentillated cornice and eaves, and coped gables topped with iron finials. There are two external side wall stacks. The lodge is two storeys high and consists of three bays, arranged in an L-plan.

The windows are lancets with round and pointed polychrome heads and bracketed sills. The east front has a gabled wing on the left, which includes a hipped square bay window with six lancets. In the return angle, there is a parapeted square porch with a lintel band, featuring a round-headed door with shafts and a hood mould, alongside a single lancet window. To the right of the porch, there is a double lancet window. Above this, on the left, are two double lancets, and to the right is a cross eaves gabled dormer. The north gable has a triple lancet window, with a double lancet above it. To the right, there is a set-back single-storey outbuilding with a door and a double lancet window, followed by a buttressed wall leading to a square yard.

On the south side, there is a door flanked on the left by a 20th-century casement window and on the right by two lancets. This lodge is part of a pumping station, one of three built in the late 19th century to serve Nottingham City.

Local climate

West Lodge at Bestwood Pumping Station sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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