Clock Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 July 1989. Clock tower.
Clock Tower
- WRENN ID
- high-paling-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 July 1989
- Type
- Clock tower
- Address
- Clock Tower, the Square, Mere
- OS grid reference
- ST 812 323
- Coordinates
- 51.09025, -2.26914
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Clock Tower, dated 1868, is a Grade II listed structure located in the center of the former market place. It is built from rock-faced limestone with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof, a wooden turret, and a ventilating louvre. The tower has a square plan with one offset diagonal buttress and a pyramidal roof that transitions to an octagonal stage, displaying a clock on two faces. At the top, there is a small slated pyramid with a louvred crowning feature and a weathercock. The east front has plain plank doors set in a moulded arch, which includes a drip to leaf stops and a panel inscribed with 'Albert Edward 1868' alongside the Prince of Wales feathers. The north and south sides have blind lancet windows, while the west side features leaded glazed windows. A corbel table cornice adorns the main roof, and there are small gabled lucarnes on each face of the roof slope. This clock tower occupies the site where the Market House stood until 1863 and was gifted to the town by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.
Local climate
Clock Tower receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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