The Old Clock Tower and Number 63 is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1951. Clockhouse and inn. 1 related planning application.
The Old Clock Tower and Number 63
- WRENN ID
- sunken-bracket-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1951
- Type
- Clockhouse and inn
- Address
- The Old Clock Tower and Number 63, High Street, Buntingford, SG9 9AE
- OS grid reference
- TL 361 295
- Coordinates
- 51.94803, -0.01996
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Clock Tower and Number 63 is a clockhouse over a footway, which is now used as offices, and is said to date from the 16th century, having been restored in the 19th century. It is supported to the north by a mid-19th century inn. The clockhouse is timber framed and roughcast, with the rear and sides of the turret weatherboarded and louvred. It features old red tile roofs and a square gabled turret with a clock face on the east side, which has a single hand and is set under a pointed louvred opening framed with a square head at the apex of a steep gable. This gable is adorned with a frilly bargeboard and is topped with a pole and windvane. The turret rises from the pitched roof of a bridge-building that is high above the passageway, which includes a small-paned fixed window on the east side. Number 63 has a high-level loft that connects with the rear of the bridge building.
The inn, formerly known as The Angel Inn, features polychrome brick decoration against a grey brick background. It is a two-storey, L-plan building with a slate roof facing east. The symmetrical front has three upper pointed windows linked by a blind arcade, and there is a chamfered brick floor band with the name engraved in Lombardic capitals in stone inset above a central round-arched door with two stepped orders. Flanking the door are triple round-arched windows supported by cast iron columns that replace the original mullions. The building has a chamfered plinth and a large decorative wrought iron bracket for the inn sign. The roof ridge is embellished with ornamental cresting, and there are grey gault brick chimneys with grouped octagonal shafts, red brick caps, and bases.
Local climate
The Old Clock Tower and Number 63 sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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