The Clock House

The Clock House is a mid-to-late 19th-century house, originally built as a coach house with a summerhouse above. It was converted to a dwelling around 1970. Constructed of Flemish bond red brick, it features brick stacks and chimneyshafts, a slate roof to the main house, and a peg-tile roof to the turret.

Originally, the coach house faced northwest, with a single large, heated summerhouse above, incorporating a stack in the northeast end wall, a front balcony, and a picturesque oriel window turret projecting from the right end wall. Around 1970, the building was converted into a dwelling, and both floors were subdivided; a central axial stack dates from this conversion.

The deliberate High Victorian style is evident in the picturesque elevation. The front has a two-window arrangement. At ground floor, a 20th-century doorway and window now occupy the site of the former coach house entrance, and the original lintel over the double doors remains. The first floor has two original glazed French windows opening onto a timber balcony supported by shaped joists and a zinc roof with rustic posts, trellis-work, and a handrail. The roof is hipped at both ends, with deep eaves and a gabled dormer featuring shaped bargeboards, a finial, and a clockface instead of a window. A stone plaque inscribed with the initials CAB, PC, PM, and RAC, along with a freemasonry motif, is set into the right-hand wall at ground floor. This corner is rounded, with a window on each floor; the first-floor window is an original 10/6-pane sash window with a Tudor-style hoodmould, while the ground-floor window is a 20th-century replacement for a former doorway. An ornamental oriel window turret projects from the right end wall, constructed of boarded timber framing, circular in plan, and supported by shaped brackets. Its tall, narrow windows have glazing bars only at the top. The turret rises above the eaves to a bellcote-like structure with wavy-headed bays and a splayed spire-like roof. The original stack on the opposite end wall retains an original tall octagonal chimneypot. The rear roof is half-hipped, and alterations below ground floor include the blocking of a carriageway entrance and the insertion of 20th-century windows; however, the first floor retains two original horned 10/6 sash windows with Tudor-style hoodmoulds.

The Clock House contributes to a picturesque group of buildings alongside Lydd Farmhouse and its outbuildings.