Clock Tower and Adjoining Building at Approximately 15 Metres South West of Calenick House is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1986. Clock tower.

Clock Tower and Adjoining Building at Approximately 15 Metres South West of Calenick House

WRENN ID
steep-hinge-hawk
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 March 1986
Type
Clock tower
OS grid reference
SW 820 431
Coordinates
50.24821, -5.05811
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The clock tower and adjoining building, located approximately 15 meters southwest of Calenick House, date from around 1750. The structure is built of Flemish bond brick and features a wooden bellcote topped with a pyramidal scantle roof and a weathervane. The adjoining building has a hipped scantle slate roof. The clock tower is square in plan and has two brick stages, along with an open bellcote. The lower stage includes a doorway on the east side and a lunette window with traceried glazing on the first floor above, while there is a similar but blind lunette on the west side. A cornice separates the two stages. The upper stage is narrower, with a plinth and splayed corners, featuring a small window on the south side and original clock faces on the east and west. Above this is another cornice. The bellcote has moulded plinths at the splayed corner posts, with spandrel bracing creating three-sided arches between the posts, topped with a moulded cornice.

Inside, the clock tower is virtually complete, retaining its floors and original clock works made by Richard Wallis in 1756, along with a bell inscribed by William Lemon from 1749. The clock weights are made of iron slag, and the clock hands are cast iron, with a mechanism similar to that of a long case clock from the same period.

Historically, there was a smelting works on this site from 1711 to 1891, initially operated by a Mitchell, followed by a Daniell, and later by a Bolitho. A descendant of Mitchell, currently residing in South Africa, possesses records related to Calenick House left by her great grandfather. This clock tower is a fine and complete example from the 18th century and is locally significant for its connection to early iron smelting in Cornwall.

Local climate

Clock Tower and Adjoining Building at Approximately 15 Metres South West of Calenick House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% 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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