Minor Pump House at Boughton Pumping Station is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1986. Pump house. 1 related planning application.
Minor Pump House at Boughton Pumping Station
- WRENN ID
- lesser-passage-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Sherwood Forest MP: Michelle Welsh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1986
- Type
- Pump house
- Address
- Minor Pump House at Boughton Pumping Station, Whinney Lane, Ollerton and Boughton
- OS grid reference
- SK 667 691
- Coordinates
- 53.21555, -1.00175
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a minor pump house, built in 1905 as part of the Boughton Pumping Station, designed by W. B. Starr. It is constructed from brick and rockfaced stone, with ashlar dressings and Westmorland slate roofs. The design is in a Renaissance Revival style.
The pump house is arranged over three storeys and six unequal bays, forming an L-plan. It features a moulded plinth, two sill bands, a modillioned cornice, and dentillated eaves, with coped gables incorporating kneelers and obelisk finials. Most of the windows are glazing bar casements of varying shapes, each with a keystoned head.
A prominent feature is the two-storey central bay on the south gable with steps leading to a portico, which has Tuscan columns, a foliate soffit, and a semi-circular head. There is a pair of round-headed panelled doors in this bay. To the right is a single-storey range with a blind arcade on the ground floor, above which is a casement with a segmental head. Further along is a gable with a round-moulded window. The west side features a projecting central three-storey filter house, with a variety of casement and Diocletian windows, culminating in an octagonal cupola with squat columns and a copper ogee dome. The north gable has a pair of recessed half-glazed doors surmounted by a Diocletian window. Above this is a mullioned tripartite casement supported by squat shafts and a moulded entablature.
The east side includes a projecting gabled single-storey range with hipped clerestory roofs. The interior features a strutted king post roof and a glazed brick finish throughout.
Local climate
Minor Pump House at Boughton Pumping Station sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% 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 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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