Victoria Clock Tower is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1949. Clock tower.
Victoria Clock Tower
- WRENN ID
- sombre-casement-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1949
- Type
- Clock tower
- Address
- Victoria Clock Tower, North Road, Ripon
- OS grid reference
- SE 312 718
- Coordinates
- 54.14134, -1.52274
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Victoria Clock Tower was built in 1897 to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. The tower is constructed of ashlar stone and features an ogee crown with eight ribs, each topped with a pinnacle. At the very top is a metal crown. A statue of Queen Victoria is positioned on a corbel above the doorway. The architectural details are designed in the Perpendicular style.
Local climate
Victoria Clock Tower receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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