Clock Tower North West of Greystoke Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 December 1967. Tower.
Clock Tower North West of Greystoke Castle
- WRENN ID
- iron-brick-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 December 1967
- Type
- Tower
- OS grid reference
- NY 435 309
- Coordinates
- 54.6704, -2.87737
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Clock Tower, located north-west of Greystoke Castle, was built in 1789 for the 11th Duke of Norfolk and was originally part of a wing of the castle. It is constructed from coursed pink sandstone rubble and features string courses, eaves modillions, a battlemented parapet, and raised quoins set on a chamfered plinth. The tower is heptagonal and stands four storeys high, but it is now just a shell without floors or a roof. It includes a pointed-arched doorway and various openings that are rectangular, round, and segmental, some of which are blind. There are also two clock faces on the upper floor. The ground floor was previously used as the Brew House, which was located beneath the upstairs-maids' dining room. The tower is listed for its group value with Greystoke Castle.
Local climate
Clock Tower North West of Greystoke Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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