Clock Tower at Junction with Frederick Street and Vyse Street is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. Clock tower. 5 related planning applications.
Clock Tower at Junction with Frederick Street and Vyse Street
- WRENN ID
- silver-portal-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Ladywood MP: Shabana Mahmood (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1982
- Type
- Clock tower
- Address
- Clock Tower at Junction with Frederick Street and Vyse Street, Warstone Lane B18
- OS grid reference
- SP 060 876
- Coordinates
- 52.48701, -1.91257
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Clock Tower at the junction of Frederick Street and Vyse Street is a Grade II listed structure built in 1903. This cast iron clock tower is situated in the middle of a road junction and was erected to commemorate Joseph Chamberlain's visit to South Africa when he was Secretary of State for the Colonies. The tower features a pedestal base with volutes at the corners, a tall square section panelled shaft, and a console corbelled square clock stage that has segmental pedimented clock faces. It is topped with a segmental cupola.
Local climate
Clock Tower at Junction with Frederick Street and Vyse Street receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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