Clock Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1994. Clock tower.
Clock Tower
- WRENN ID
- old-grate-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Clapham and Brixton Hill MP: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1994
- Type
- Clock tower
- Address
- Clock Tower, Clapham High Street
- OS grid reference
- TQ 294 752
- Coordinates
- 51.46187, -0.13807
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Clock Tower, located on Clapham High Street in Lambeth, was built as a gift to the people of Clapham by Alexander Glegg, who served as mayor from 1905 to 1906. The architect for the tower was Ewart Gladstone Millar, and the clock, which does not strike, was made by Gillett and Johnston of Croydon. The structure is made of Portland stone and features a grey polished Aberdeen granite base. It stands 31 feet tall and has a square plan. The plinth includes a bronze panelled door that provides access to the winding mechanism. Above this, the stem of the tower displays banded rustication and large quoins, along with projecting cornices and a clock set within a frieze. The top of the tower is adorned with a voluted top-knot and a ball finial. The Clock Tower is noted as a local landmark and is recognized for its strong, yet contrasting, group value with the listed rotunda of the nearby Underground station.
Local climate
Clock Tower sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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