Clock Tower Between British Waterways Board Office and River Weaver is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1986. Clock tower. 1 related planning application.

Clock Tower Between British Waterways Board Office and River Weaver

WRENN ID
shadowed-remnant-pearl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Mid Cheshire MP: Andrew Cooper (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 August 1986
Type
Clock tower
Address
Clock Tower Between British Waterways Board Office and River Weaver, Navigation Road, Northwich, CW8 1BH
OS grid reference
SJ 656 735
Coordinates
53.25804, -2.51682
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The clock tower, built in 1830 for the Weaver Navigation Trust (now British Waterways Board), is located between the British Waterways Board office and the River Weaver. It features a brick base with recessed panels on each side, while the three upper stages are constructed of weatherboarded timber. The top stage displays clock faces on the north and south sides, topped by a hemispherical cupola supported by four Doric columns, which is adorned with a moulded finial. There are external wooden steps leading to a raised doorway.

Local climate

Clock Tower Between British Waterways Board Office and River Weaver sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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