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
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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