The Clock House

The Clock House is a large stable block, later converted into a school dormitory, dating from 1709. It was likely built for William Gore, possibly by Gibbs. The building is constructed of plum brick with red brick dressings, red rubbed arches, and stone cornices and urns. The steep roofs are now slated.

The main block faces east and is two storeys high, with a taller, projecting central section topped by a clock and four stone urns. Originally, the centre had an arcaded octagonal Doric cupola, which is now missing. The design is striking and in the Baroque style. The flanking wings are simple, five windows long, with terminal pilasters. They feature tall, round-headed recessed box sashes with small panes in a radial pattern to the windows on the ground floor; a six-panel door is positioned in the lower part of the middle window. The first floor windows are smaller, square-headed, with small panes and moulded sills. A moulded stone cornice is surmounted by a brick parapet, which appears to be a later addition.

The projecting centre has square corner piers linked by a chamfered plinth. Above is a wide stone moulded cornice, a brick parapet with stone copings, and tall gadrooned stone urns. Two higher brick piers flank a section of the parapet with swept moulded copings, incorporating an octagonal-framed wooden clockface. Three tall, round-headed flush box sash windows are present on the first floor. The central entrance has a painted wooden Corinthian doorcase with fluted pilasters, a full entablature with a fielded panel frieze, and a cornice that breaks forward over the end and central blocks. The entrance features eight-panel fielded double doors with a round-headed fanlight and a bolection surround. Flanking the entrance are two projecting moulded brick aedicules with moulded cornices, and hemicyle-headed brick niches with stone bases and square-headed flush box sash windows, curved on plan, set in the back. Round-headed lower door openings are located on the corners, with panelled doors and semi-circular radial fanlights.

A late 20th-century glazed block at the front and associated buildings to the rear are not considered to be of special interest.