Jubilee Clock Tower is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1984. Clock tower.
Jubilee Clock Tower
- WRENN ID
- ruined-plaster-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1984
- Type
- Clock tower
- Address
- Jubilee Clock Tower, High Street, Newmarket
- OS grid reference
- TL 645 635
- Coordinates
- 52.24551, 0.40917
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Jubilee Clock Tower is a clock tower built in 1887, designed in the Gothic style. It has a square plan and is constructed in red brick, featuring limestone quoins and decorative elements. The tower is topped with a pyramid roof covered in plain tiles, which includes gablets with louvres and a weather vane shaped like a racehorse.
The ground stage of the tower features a drinking fountain on three sides, set within pointed arched recesses adorned with terracotta tiles arranged in a diaper pattern, and is supported by angle buttresses. The second stage includes a frieze that bears the carved inscription "1837. Jubilate Victoriae. 1887 Clock presented by C. Blanton. Erected by voluntary contribution." Above this frieze, there are windows designed in the Early English Style, arranged in two tiers on each face of the tower. The third stage, which is set back, displays a clock framed in limestone and embellished with terracotta ornament.
Local climate
Jubilee Clock Tower 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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