Numbers 52 and 54 (Clock Face Public House) is a Grade II listed building in the Knowsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1951. House. 8 related planning applications.

Numbers 52 and 54 (Clock Face Public House)

WRENN ID
hollow-dormer-candle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Knowsley
Constituency
Knowsley MP: Anneliese Midgley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1951
Type
House
Address
Numbers 52 and 54 (Clock Face Public House), Derby Street, Prescot, L34 3LL
OS grid reference
SJ 461 928
Coordinates
53.42925, -2.81186
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 52 and 54, known as the Clock Face Public House, is a house and public house built in the early 19th century, with facing added around 1830. The building is constructed of brick with stone dressings and a slate roof. The main facade of No. 54 is set at a right angle to the street and features two storeys with five irregular bays. It has a first-floor sill band, a top cornice, and a parapet adorned with wreaths, along with a panel that has flanking acroteria at the entrance bay. The ends of the building are highlighted by panelled pilasters.

On the ground floor, there is a canted bay window in the first bay, while the other two bays have segmental-headed windows with tripartite sashes. The first-floor windows are framed with architraves, and the window above the entrance bay includes a frieze and a consoled cornice. All windows are sashed and feature glazing bars. The entrance in the second bay has a glazed doorcase with a complete overlight and a four-fielded-panel door, sheltered by a distyle-in-antis Ionic porch. The building has four chimney stacks.

To the right, a stone-coped brick wall includes a gate and stone gatepiers with incised lines and pediments. The right return to the street has five bays, with the first two belonging to No. 54, which are higher and feature a cornice and parapet, as well as a first-floor sill band. The windows here have wedge lintels and are also sashed. The elliptical-headed entrances have inset Doric doorcases with fluted friezes, complete fanlights, and six-panel doors. No. 52 has casement windows on the ground floor, and two of its first-floor windows are boarded up as of 1985. No. 54 was originally built as a Dower house for the Knowsley estate and was known as West End House.

Local climate

Numbers 52 and 54 (Clock Face Public House) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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