Clock Tower with Attached Wall and Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. Clock tower.

Clock Tower with Attached Wall and Drinking Fountain

WRENN ID
empty-lime-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 October 1985
Type
Clock tower
OS grid reference
SP 869 078
Coordinates
51.76294, -0.74114
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Clock Tower with attached wall and drinking fountain, built in 1843 with alterations and a turret added in 1870, is located on the south side of Wendover High Street. The clock tower has a square plan and three stages. The ground floor features chequered brickwork with a Gothic arched doorway on the west side, a window on the north side, and similar arched blank niches with stone roundels on the other sides. It has a tiled pyramid roof with dentil brick eaves and small triangular dormers on the south and east sides, leading up to the clock turret. The turret is made of red brick and has arched recesses that hold the clock faces, along with paired ventilator slits below. Stone plaques on the tower commemorate the Parish Council's ownership of the clock since 1842, the erection of the tower by Abel Smith Esq., Lord of the Manor in 1842, and the rebuilding in 1870. There is a chamfered string at the clock face level, and above the tiled pyramid roof with dentil eaves, there is a wooden bell turret topped with a tiled spirelet and finial. Attached to the south side is a low red brick wall with stone dressings, which includes a drinking fountain with a stone bowl set in a Gothic arched recess. Originally, the building was designed to house the parish fire engine, and the interior was adapted for use as a Tourist Office in 1985.

Local climate

Clock Tower with Attached Wall and Drinking Fountain sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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