Westford Pumping Station

Westford Pumping Station is a pumping station built around 1886. It features polychrome red brick, gault brick, stone dressings, and slate roofs. The building is single storey with a three-bay range facing the road and a four-sided bay on the east side. There is a lower roofed gable on the west with a range at right angles, and a semi-octagonal chimney attached at the rear. The design is in the High Victorian Italianate style.

The facade includes two paired arched and keyed window openings made of red brick with stone sills and imposts, as well as a central wooden door with an arched head and glazing bars, flanked by a fanlight. The building has a stone plinth, gault brick quoins and banding, a frieze, a dogtooth eaves cornice, and coped gables. The five-sided bay on the east has a single keyed round window, while the lower bay features a single arched sash window with glazing bars. The polygonal stack at the rear has banding and two strings running the full height without coping.

The water pumping station was established to provide piped water to the area, replacing 286 polluted wells. It originally used gas engines to power the pumps, with two sets installed: one operating for ten hours a day and the other on standby. The original engines were nine horsepower four-stroke Otto type, likely made by Crossley Bros of Manchester. Unusually, the installation used producer gas instead of town gas, with the gas produced from anthracite coal in an adjacent room. The gas producer-gas plant was an early model. In 1902, one of the gas engines was replaced by a larger steam engine, and both engines were eventually replaced by an electric motor in 1930.