Clock Tower 40 Metres South of Orwell Park School is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Clock tower.
Clock Tower 40 Metres South of Orwell Park School
- WRENN ID
- fading-pedestal-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- Clock tower
- OS grid reference
- TM 218 394
- Coordinates
- 52.00933, 1.2306
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The clock tower, built in 1859 for George Tomline, MP, is located 40 metres south of Orwell Park School. Designed in the Baroque style, it is constructed of red brick with limestone dressings. The base features banded rusticated brickwork, with open archways on each face topped by semicircular heads made of gauged brick. Each corner has a pair of clasping buttresses, each topped with a stone pier and ball finial. Above this, shallow clasping buttresses extend to the full height of the tower. A stone string course at mid-height runs over a central panel displaying the monogram G.T. on two faces and the date 1859 on a third. Below the clock, which is framed in stone, are semicircular-headed belfry openings, with single openings on three sides and paired openings on the south side. The parapets feature a heavy stone cornice and open balustrading, with pyramid finials on the corner piers. A slender, full-height stair turret with a circular plan is located at the north-east corner, appearing almost detached from the main structure.
Local climate
Clock Tower 40 Metres South of Orwell Park School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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