The School and Clock Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1973. School and clock tower. 1 related planning application.
The School and Clock Tower
- WRENN ID
- rough-iron-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1973
- Type
- School and clock tower
- Address
- The School and Clock Tower, High Street, Burnham-On-Crouch, CM0 8BE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 949 956
- Coordinates
- 51.62594, 0.81542
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School and Clock Tower is a red brick octagonal tower built in 1877, featuring black brick quoins and diapering. It has four stages topped with an open cupola that has a fish scale tiled ogee-shaped roof. The upper stage is plastered and includes corner pinnacles and clock faces on the east and west sides. The second storey has lancet windows with lattice leaded lights, while the first storey features casements with stucco square hood moulds. The ground storey consists of three 4-centred arches with hood moulds. Stucco moulded string courses run between the storeys. Gabled wings with cut and shaped ornamental bargeboards extend to the south on both the east and west sides of the tower. The School and Clock Tower is part of a group that includes Nos 47 to 57 (odd), No 30, Nos 44 to 50 (even), and Nos 1 and 2 Shore Road, with Nos 47 to 53 (odd) and Nos 48 and 50 being of local interest.
Local climate
The School and Clock Tower receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 1 application
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