Victoria Centre Clock Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Nottingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. Clock tower. 3 related planning applications.

Victoria Centre Clock Tower

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Nottingham
Constituency
Nottingham East MP: Nadia Whittome (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 July 1972
Type
Clock tower
Address
Victoria Centre Clock Tower, Milton Street, City of Nottingham
OS grid reference
SK 573 403
Coordinates
52.95725, -1.14811
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Victoria Centre Clock Tower is a former station clock tower, now serving as an ornamental feature. It was built between 1898 and 1900 by A.E. Lambert for the Great Central Railway Company. The tower was retained as part of the Victoria Centre during its redevelopment from 1965 to 1972, designed by Arthur Swift & Partners.

Constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings, the tower is designed in the Baroque Revival style. It has a square shape with three stages, featuring clasping buttresses, a cornice, and a balustrade adorned with corner turrets and balconies. The dome is copper-clad and includes four pedimented round-arched windows, a domed cupola, and a wind vane.

The ground floor showcases an ashlar front with a round-arched recess that contains voussoirs, a panelled door, and an overlight topped with a segmental pediment and a triple keystone. Above this, there is a canted stone oriel window with four lights. The top stage features a flush niche on each side framing a clock dial, complete with a balcony and a segmental pediment supported by brackets.

Local climate

Victoria Centre Clock Tower sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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