Clock Tower Building North West of Dorfold Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1986. Clock tower building.
Clock Tower Building North West of Dorfold Hall
- WRENN ID
- crooked-flue-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1986
- Type
- Clock tower building
- Address
- Clock Tower Building North West of Dorfold Hall, Burland and Acton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 635 525
- Coordinates
- 53.06868, -2.54561
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The clock tower building, located north-west of Dorfold Hall, was constructed around 1862. It features red brick with a slate roof and consists of two storeys and a tower with one bay. The entrance has a pair of large six-panel doors, which are hung on strap hinges and set into stone blocks. Above the doors is a lunette with a keystone, filled with six panels. On the first floor, there is a two-light mullion window dressed in stone, with leaded glazing. The gable roof is supported by stone kneelers and has blue tile gable coping.
On the west elevation, there is a small boarded door in a heavy frame that provides access to the tower. The tower itself has a weathered band at ridge level and features double stone-dressed louvred openings on each face, along with clock dials set in stone frames that have level sills supported by consoles and equilateral stone pediments topped with pyramid finials. A moulded terracotta corbel table runs along the eaves, and the steep roof is made of shaped slates with lead hips. At the top of the tower, there is a tall wooden finial with a metal flag and weather-vane.
Inside, the first floor includes stairs and ladders leading to the clock mechanism.
Local climate
Clock Tower Building North West of Dorfold Hall receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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