Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Dogdyke Engine at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5288322

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Recommended Books

• 
  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments