The Clock House

The Clock House is an early 18th-century L-shaped timber-framed house facing south and west, extended in the mid-18th century by a parallel range to the north. This created a compact hipped-roof block, with an entrance on the east front. Further remodelling occurred in the 19th century, both to the east front in two stages, and with a parallel two-storey extension to the north side. A former separate 19th-century two-storey weatherboarded and hipped slate-roofed block on the west is now linked to the main house, as is a late 18th-century two-storey stable block. The stable block, located at the southwest corner, is weatherboarded with a hipped slate roof and a central gable on the east, surmounted by an arrow windvane. A large internal chimney is positioned one-third from the west end of the south range; later stacks are present on the rear walls of rooms on the east front.

The south front is weatherboarded, featuring three irregularly spaced windows with flush box sashes. The first-floor windows have eight-over-eight panes (renewed), while the ground-floor windows have been altered. Three doorways are blocked. A modern door is near the east end.

The east front has three windows and a central door. The most notable feature is a circa 1770 carpenters' Gothic porch with coupled wooden colonnettes, annulets, moulded caps and bases, a coved and arched entablature around a wide flat hood with a parallel soffit. The upper windows are early 19th-century flush box sashes with moulded architraves; at the centre, they have three-over-three panes, and on the sides, they are three-light sashes with a configuration of 2/2:6/6:2/2. Later 19th-century remodelling incorporates a bracketed eaves cornice and a broken frieze over the windows, paired brackets, and two large, single-storey polygonal brick bay windows, stuccoed with Portland stone cills, pilasters, chamfered and stopped lintols, and a bracketed eaves overhang to lead hipped roofs. A later 19th-century four-panel door is flanked by panelled pilasters and has a small coloured glass fanlight.

The stable block has a modillioned eaves cornice. Its central gable features a clock face and a moulded raking cornice. It has two pairs of large double doors, central and to the south. The stable was also used as a coach house. An external stair leads to the upper floor, with two eight-paned low windows and twin-plank doors below the gable.

This is an interesting architectural complex situated on a corner plot. An Ordnance Survey map from 1879 identifies the house as Prospect House. The porch is similar to that at Sayesbury Manor council offices in Bell Street.