The Clock Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. Clock tower.

The Clock Tower

WRENN ID
narrow-flagstone-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Darlington
Constituency
Darlington MP: Lola McEvoy (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Clock tower
Address
The Clock Tower, Tower Road
OS grid reference
NZ 279 152
Coordinates
54.53189, -1.56921
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Clock Tower is a 19th-century structure located on Tower Road. It is built in the Perpendicular style and features an ashlar construction. The tower has a battlemented parapet above the top stage, which houses the clock. The main stage of the tower is long and has tall sunk panels with bell-openings above and narrow slit windows below. It stands on a stepped plinth and includes a large entrance porch to the west with an open archway.

Local climate

The Clock Tower receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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