The Clock Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. Stables, house. 1 related planning application.

The Clock Tower

WRENN ID
pale-chamber-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Wirral West MP: Matthew Patrick (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1986
Type
Stables, house
Address
The Clock Tower, Station Road, Thurstaston, CH61 0HL
OS grid reference
SJ 245 842
Coordinates
53.34949, -3.13447
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Clock Tower is a building that was originally constructed as stables between 1882 and 1884 by R.N. Shaw. It is made of rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and features a tiled roof.

The structure is two storeys high and consists of six bays. The ground floor has double-chamfered-mullioned windows with two and four lights, while the first floor displays a combination of 1:3:2:1:3:3-light windows. The entrances located in the second and sixth bays are flanked by lights, with the entrance in the sixth bay featuring a Tudor head and a label mould. The central entrance is a pointed arch, with the mouldings integrated into the jambs and a hood mould above.

Above, the central two-bay attic has a cornice, an embattled parapet, and a pyramidal roof that includes a clock face. The building has cross-axial and gable-end stacks. A courtyard can be accessed through an arch, which includes an open shelter on the western side.

Local climate

The Clock Tower sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
  • 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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