Clock Tower and Attached Steps is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1981. Clock tower.

Clock Tower and Attached Steps

WRENN ID
rooted-glass-pearl
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 July 1981
Type
Clock tower
Address
Clock Tower and Attached Steps, Liskeard
OS grid reference
SX 240 665
Coordinates
50.47231, -4.48118
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The clock tower at Treworgey dates from 1733 and features a lower stage made of rubble with slate hanging above. It has grouted slate roofs with projecting eaves supported by wooden brackets and a square plan. The tower is designed in a Chinoiserie style and consists of three stages, culminating in a pagoda-like upper stage that has paired louvred openings and is topped with a weather vane. The west front includes a triangular-arched opening with decorative tracery, behind which are mesh and boards. Above this opening, the clock face has only one hand and was made by John Belling of Bodmin. There is a carved slate sundial from 1777 on the west wall, which is non-operational and features the Connock-Hodge crest with the inscription "EVERY HOUR/SHORTENS LIFE." A plain opening on the north side has an old panelled door. The cast bell, dated 1620, is inscribed "John Connock, His Bell." Although the interior was not inspected, there are subsidiary features including a wide flight of steps on the adjoining south side that rise to a terrace, flanked by dressed granite piers topped with ball finials.

Local climate

Clock Tower and Attached Steps sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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