Clocktower with Stable Yard and Office Yard Adjoining Tregothnan to the North East is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1985. Clock tower, stable yard, office yard.

Clocktower with Stable Yard and Office Yard Adjoining Tregothnan to the North East

WRENN ID
late-postern-crag
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 November 1985
Type
Clock tower, stable yard, office yard
OS grid reference
SW 856 416
Coordinates
50.23569, -5.00648
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The clock tower with stable yard and office yard, located northeast of Tregothnan, is a significant structure built between 1816 and 1818 by William Wilkins for the Fourth Viscount Falmouth. The office yard was added later, between 1845 and 1848, by Lewis Vulliamy for the second Earl of Falmouth. The building features yellow brick with stone dressings on the main east front, while other parts are constructed from rubble with stone dressings and slate roofs.

Designed in a Tudor Collegiate style, the east front consists of two storeys and includes a central gate tower with an arch flanked by octagonal turrets. The first floor has two 2-light mullioned and transomed windows on either side of a clock, with battlements and Tudor terracotta chimneys above. There are two bays on either side of the tower, featuring six-light mullioned and transomed windows below and five-light above. The building is topped with a battlemented parapet and tall Tudor terracotta stacks.

The internal faces of the stable yard are made of rubble and show some later alterations. The northeast side has five carriage doors with four-centred heads, and the yard is paved with granite setts. The office yard, which is the original stable yard, is smaller and simpler, particularly in its exterior walls, and it adjoins the stable yard to the south. The development of these buildings remains uncertain.

Local climate

Clocktower with Stable Yard and Office Yard Adjoining Tregothnan to the North East receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% 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 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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