Clock Tower North of Windlestone Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1968. A Georgian Clock tower.
Clock Tower North of Windlestone Hall
- WRENN ID
- peeling-jade-rain
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor MP: Alan Strickland (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1968
- Type
- Clock tower
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Clock Tower North of Windlestone Hall, A689
- OS grid reference
- NZ 263 287
- Coordinates
- 54.65322, -1.59284
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Clock Tower north of Windlestone Hall is a stable gateway clock tower with attached walls, likely built in the early 19th century. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar and features a lead-covered dome. The three-stage tower has channelled rustication on the first two stages, corner pilasters, and a high round arch with stepped voussoirs. Each stage is topped with a cornice and blocking course, with the second stage displaying four large painted clock dials. The circular colonnade drum, designed in a smooth Doric order with a triglyph frieze, supports the high dome, which is topped with a weather-vane finial.
Attached to the left is a low one-storey, one-bay building that has a blocked central door. The dwarf walls extending along the east side of the stable yard and the drive to the rear of Windlestone Hall have gently-curved coping and are slightly stepped, interrupted by a pedestrian gateway at the south-east corner of the yard.
Local climate
Clock Tower North of Windlestone Hall receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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- Stables to north of Windlestone Hall, now classrooms to Windlestone Hall School
- Stables, Now School Laundry, to North-West of Windlestone Hall
- Yew Cottage
- Outbuildings to North of Yew Cottage
- Curved Garden Wall to West of Windlestone Hall
- Wall and Piers to West of Yew Cottage
- Windlestone Hall
- Terrace Wall to East and South of Windlestone Hall, with Piers and Steps
- The Coach House, to North of Garden Cottage
- Garden Wall to West of Windlestone Hall School