The Old Clock Tower And Number 63

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.