Clock Tower on the Corner of Highbury Hill and Church Path is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Clock tower. 5 related planning applications.
Clock Tower on the Corner of Highbury Hill and Church Path
- WRENN ID
- odd-balcony-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington North MP: Jeremy Corbyn (YP)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Clock tower
- OS grid reference
- TQ 318 854
- Coordinates
- 51.55276, -0.09903
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The clock tower, dating from 1897, stands on the corner of Highbury Hill and Church Path in Islington. It was donated to the Islington Vestry by Alfred Hutchinson to commemorate Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Constructed from granite and cast iron, the tower has an octagonal base of pink polished granite, reached by three steps. The tower itself is square, with a lower panelled base featuring segmental pediments to each of the four sides, decorated with openwork and topped with ball and spike finials. The cast iron column is fluted at its base and includes low relief portraits of Queen Victoria within wreathed roundels about halfway up. Above this is the clock stage, which has decorated spandrels and a fluted coved frieze to the cornice. The tower is finished with an ogee top and a spike finial. The clock tower is situated as a group with Christchurch, Highbury Grove.
Local climate
Clock Tower on the Corner of Highbury Hill and Church Path sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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