Beechams Clock Tower and offices is a Grade II listed building in the St. Helens local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1993. A 19th century Office. 6 related planning applications.

Beechams Clock Tower and offices

WRENN ID
winding-balcony-merlin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St. Helens
Constituency
St Helens South and Whiston MP: Ms Marie Rimmer (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 December 1993
Type
Office
Period
19th century
Address
Beechams Clock Tower and offices, Westfield Street, WA10 1QL
OS grid reference
SJ 508 954
Coordinates
53.45321, -2.74115
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Beechams Clock Tower and Offices is an office building constructed in 1887 by architect H.V. Krolow for Thomas Beecham. It has been altered and extended in the 20th century. The building is made of red brick, featuring sandstone and terracotta details, with a Welsh slate roof and red clay ridge tiles, as well as sheet lead on the tower and turrets. It has an L-shaped layout with the entrance located at the angle of the two ranges beneath a tall entrance tower.

The structure is three storeys high, with eight bays on the north range and six on the east range, each topped with a terra turret. The turret on the north side has an ogival cupola with miniature pediments. The entrance tower at the north-east corner consists of four stages, with the second stage featuring open arches on each face and the third stage displaying clock faces beneath steep pediments of the upper cupola. The north elevation is arranged in a pattern of 2:1:1:1:2:1, with the turreted end bay being taller. The ground floor has wide segmentally-arched window openings in bays two and six, while bays four and seven feature canted oriels at the first floor, adorned with terracotta detail along wide storey bands. The first floor also includes oriels in bays one and five, and bay five has an inserted roller shutter. The entrance bay showcases a semi-circular arched double doorway flanked by granite inner columns and outer pilasters, with the arch keyblock incorporating a bust of the founder. The arch spandrels display figures holding text that reads "Worth a guinea a box, largest sale in the world," referring to Beechams Pills.

Inside, the entrance area is panelled and features pendant finials on the panelled ceiling. There are some original light fittings and a staircase with heavily moulded balusters.

Local climate

Beechams Clock Tower and offices sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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