Clock Tower at Hms Dryad (Southwick House) is a Grade II listed building in the Winchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1988. Clock tower.
Clock Tower at Hms Dryad (Southwick House)
- WRENN ID
- little-loft-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Winchester
- Constituency
- Fareham and Waterlooville MP: Suella Braverman (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1988
- Type
- Clock tower
- Address
- Clock Tower at Hms Dryad (Southwick House), Southwick and Widley
- OS grid reference
- SU 632 087
- Coordinates
- 50.87497, -1.10222
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Clock Tower at HMS Dryad, also known as Southwick House, is a Grade II listed building. It is believed to have been depicted on the Ordnance Survey map of 1810, although it was constructed in an Italianate style around 1840. The clock was made by a London firm called Westwoods and is known to have been repaired and undergone small alterations in 1842.
The tower features a slate roof and is tall and square, consisting of three stages. The lower stage is latticed and rusticated, with round-headed entrances on each side, separated from the next stage by a moulded cornice. The middle stage has two tall round-headed arches on each face and includes a clock with a metal face. The third stage, designed in the Italianate style, has an imitation balustrade at the bottom, two round-headed arched louvred openings on each face, a row of pseudo machicolations, and a pyramidal roof topped with a spire and metal weathervane.
Local climate
Clock Tower at Hms Dryad (Southwick House) receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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