The Clock Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1990. Office building, clock tower.
The Clock Tower
- WRENN ID
- weathered-render-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Newark MP: Robert Jenrick (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1990
- Type
- Office building, clock tower
- Address
- The Clock Tower, Great North Road
- OS grid reference
- SK 796 542
- Coordinates
- 53.07927, -0.81214
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Clock Tower is an office building dating from around 1860, featuring a prominent clock tower. It is constructed of red brick and render, with ashlar dressings and slate hipped roofs. The building has a moulded band at the first floor and an eaves cornice.
The two-storey office section includes a three-storey clock tower on the northwest side. The southeast riverfront showcases a pair of three-light windows set within an ashlar arcade, which has seven round arches supported by six columns. Above this, there is another pair of similar windows within an arcaded surround. The clock tower is topped with a pyramidal hipped roof that features a continuous dormer window with ten lights and circular glazing on each face, culminating in a tall triple chimney stack.
On the northeast front, there is an off-centre 20th-century doorway, a canted bay window to the left, and a former round-headed doorway to the right, which now has inserted windows beyond two segment-headed windows. Above this, there is another pair of three-light windows within an ashlar arcaded surround. Set back to the right is a round-headed doorway flanked by side lights, with a single round-headed window to the right, and above are a double and a single round-headed window, all featuring moulded ashlar surrounds.
The northwest front has a single blocked doorway in an ashlar surround and an inserted 20th-century doorway to the right, above which is a single round-headed window in an ashlar surround. The southwest front displays two round-headed windows, with a single and a double round-headed window above, plus a pair of three-light windows within an arcaded surround.
Rising from the slightly projecting off-centre bay is a rendered square clock tower with each front articulated by two pairs of Doric pilasters flanking a central round-headed sash window, topped by a full entablature. Above this is an ornate gable featuring a round clock face, and the pyramidal roof has a round-headed lucarne. The entire structure is crowned by an iron balustrade and a flagpole.
Local climate
The Clock Tower sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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