The Clock Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 August 1972. Clock tower. 3 related planning applications.
The Clock Tower
- WRENN ID
- buried-casement-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Darlington MP: Lola McEvoy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 August 1972
- Type
- Clock tower
- Address
- The Clock Tower, West Row
- OS grid reference
- NZ 288 144
- Coordinates
- 54.52485, -1.55513
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Clock Tower, built in 1864 by Alfred Waterhouse, is a tall, seven-stage tower made of pale brick with stone bands and dressings, designed in the Italian Gothic style. Each face of the fifth stage features paired pointed arched windows, which have detached shafts with ornamental capitals and lead to decorative cast iron balconies supported by heavy stone brackets. The sixth stage consists of open pointed arcading. Above the clock face, there are octagonal corner turrets that support spirelets around a tall slated spire, which includes lucarnes and a vane. The west face has a doorway that is now blocked, featuring mouldings and nook shafts. An adjacent plaque notes that the tower was presented to the town by Joseph Pease in 1864, with Alfred F. Waterhouse as the architect. On the north side, there is a two-storey building made of similar materials that has had large shop windows added to both the ground and first floors.
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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