Clock Tower and Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1992. Clock tower, drinking fountain. 1 related planning application.
Clock Tower and Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- haunted-roof-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight East MP: Joe Robertson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1992
- Type
- Clock tower, drinking fountain
- Address
- Clock Tower and Drinking Fountain, the Esplande, Shanklin
- OS grid reference
- SZ 586 813
- Coordinates
- 50.62891, -1.17249
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Clock Tower and Drinking Fountain is likely a Jubilee memorial from either 1887 or 1897, although the inscription is now unreadable. It is constructed from Isle of Wight stone ashlar and features a metal clock face along with a painted lead roof made of cast iron. The structure is a square tower with three stages, sitting on a base of three stone steps.
The first stage includes a small round-headed opening with a gabled canopy on the north face, which services the clock. On the south face, there is a cast iron drinking fountain with a semi-circular bowl and a round-headed panel behind it that bears the inscription "Keep the Pavement dry" along with a depiction of two doves, all topped with a gabled canopy. The second stage is narrower and is divided by moulded bands, featuring chamfered corners and carved stone corbels at the top.
The third stage displays a clock face on all sides, set into sunk panels. The tower culminates in a pyramidal roof topped with a spire, which has a weathervane and a trefoliated bell opening supported by pillars, with quatrefoil piercings above.
Local climate
Clock Tower and Drinking Fountain receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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