The Clock Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1952. Tower. 2 related planning applications.
The Clock Tower
- WRENN ID
- sharp-bracket-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1952
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- The Clock Tower, Peveril Point Road, Swanage, BH19 2BB
- OS grid reference
- SZ 037 786
- Coordinates
- 50.60753, -1.94789
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Clock Tower was built in 1854 as a memorial to the Duke of Wellington, originally positioned at the southern approach to London Bridge. Designed by Arthur Ashpital, it is a square stone structure of three stages, with the lower two stages solid and the upper stage open. Between 1867 and 1868, the tower was dismantled and relocated to its current site by Mowlem and Burt. The base has a 2-centred arched doorway on each face, topped with an ogee canopy within a square frame. Above a carved band course, the second stage features a 2-light segmental arched window accompanied by a circular window, both set under a crocketted gable. The top stage consists of four piers supporting 2-centred cusped arches set within ogee canopies, which in turn support an ogee-shaped cupola replacing a former spire. Double angle buttresses with gabled crocketted tops rise on the exterior.
Local climate
The Clock Tower receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 14 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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