Clock Tower Lock Up is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1951. Clock tower.
Clock Tower Lock Up
- WRENN ID
- long-gargoyle-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1951
- Type
- Clock tower
- Address
- Clock Tower Lock Up, High Street, Fenstanton
- OS grid reference
- TL 314 684
- Coordinates
- 52.29842, -0.07313
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Clock Tower and Lock Up, located at the junction of Fenstanton High Street and Hilton Road, is a late 17th-century structure with a square plan and two storeys. It is built of red brick featuring yellow brick rusticated quoins and an ashlar plinth. The roof is a restored hipped slate design, topped with a wooden louvred bell turret that has round arches on each face, crowned by a weather vane. A dentil brick eaves cornice adds detail to the structure. There are two plank doors on the north and south sides, along with one sealed window on the first floor and one fixed light with glazing bars set in a segmental arch. The bell, cast by Thomas Norris in either 1660 or 1666, is a notable feature, as is the clock with an octagonal face on the east wall, which originally came from Conington Hall in Cambridgeshire.
Local climate
Clock Tower Lock Up sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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