The Clock Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1993. Clock tower. 1 related planning application.
The Clock Tower
- WRENN ID
- scarred-lead-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1993
- Type
- Clock tower
- Address
- The Clock Tower, Marine Road Central, Morecambe, LA4 5BX
- OS grid reference
- SD 434 645
- Coordinates
- 54.07347, -2.86601
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Clock Tower is a clock tower built in 1905 by Cressey and Keighley, located on Marine Road Central in Morecambe. It is constructed of red brick with sandstone banding and dressings. The tower has a square plan above a cruciform base, featuring corner buttresses. The lowest stage includes bench seats sheltered by lead canopies. Above this, there are 3-light mullioned windows set beneath gablets. Each side of the clock stage has a lozenge window, and the clock stage itself is made of sandstone, supported by corner corbels. The circular clock face openings are adorned with keystones, and the structure is topped with a tent roof and a metal finial. On the seaward side, there are inscriptions that read: 'Presented by John Robert Birkett Esq JP Mayor 1903 to 1906', and 'Cressey and Keighley, Architects'.
Local climate
The Clock Tower sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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