Clock Tower, Weighbridge and Stables Adjoining is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Tower, stable.
Clock Tower, Weighbridge and Stables Adjoining
- WRENN ID
- riven-render-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- Tower, stable
- OS grid reference
- NY 945 258
- Coordinates
- 54.62733, -2.0856
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a clock and weighbridge tower with adjoining stables, constructed in the mid-19th century for the London Lead Company. It is made of coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and features graduated green slate roofs. The tower stands three storeys high and has one bay, while the stable range to the left is one storey and consists of five bays.
The tower has a high segmental-headed carriage arch with voussoirs, which is adjacent to a house on the right and supported by piers on the left. The first floor is blank below the clock, featuring a louvred round-headed opening with a continuous impost band. Louvred openings with flat stone lintels rest on this band. The pyramidal roof has wide swept eaves. The stable range on the left has two late 19th-century sash windows in the front two bays, and there is a brick extension with garage doors further to the left, which is not of interest.
Inside the tower arch, there are quadrant brick piers in the two left corners, each with a small cupboard door. The ground under the arch has a cast iron surround for the weighbridge. This building is included for its historical interest.
Local climate
Clock Tower, Weighbridge and Stables Adjoining sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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- Sale history — 9 transactions since 2000
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