Clock at Junction of Victoria Street and Vauxhall Bridge Road Little Ben is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. A Victorian Monument.

Clock at Junction of Victoria Street and Vauxhall Bridge Road Little Ben

WRENN ID
little-frieze-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westminster
Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 December 1987
Type
Monument
Address
Clock at Junction of Victoria Street and Vauxhall Bridge Road Little Ben, Victoria Street Sw1, City of Westminster
OS grid reference
TQ 290 791
Coordinates
51.49646, -0.14268
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Ben is a freestanding clock located at the junction of Victoria Street and Vauxhall Bridge Road in the City of Westminster. It was first erected in 1892 and is made of cast iron. The clock has a square section and features four main stages of decorated cast iron, with the clock stage being the widest. It is topped with a pinnacled narrow octagonal stage that has an ogee dome and a weathervane. The clock was taken down in 1964 but was restored and rebuilt in 1981, as noted on the inscription at its base.

Local climate

Clock at Junction of Victoria Street and Vauxhall Bridge Road Little Ben 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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