Clock House And Attached Gate Piers

The Clock House and attached gate piers form a coach-house and stable block, later converted into houses, with early- to mid-19th century gate piers. Rainwater heads on the main block are dated 1842, but the core of the building likely dates to the late 18th century, with 20th century alterations. Constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings, now with areas patched with brick and cement rendering, the building has Welsh slate roofs and ashlar gate piers.

The building is two and three storeys high, featuring a 1:3:2:3:1 arrangement of first-floor openings, with the end and centre groups slightly projecting. The central two-bay block has a three-story elevation. It contains a coach-house door with 16 panels, set within a semicircular arch and ashlar architrave flanked by round-arched windows with ashlar sills. Above the arch are two oculi with ashlar surrounds, followed by a band and a 10-pane tripartite sash window. A pediment, displaying six dove-holes along its lower edge and a scar where a clock once stood, crowns the block. A timber cupola, containing bells and topped with a weather vane, sits above the pediment.

The flanking three-bay blocks feature round-arched openings with ashlar surrounds and continuous lintels, an impost band, and a 6-panel door in the center, flanked by a sash and a casement window with 5-pane overlights. First-floor windows are six-pane sashes with cornices. The end bays have a sash window and a part-glazed door on the ground floor, both with lintels and impost bands and overlights. A six-pane sash window is located on the first floor, topped with a cornice and a deep parapet providing a pavilion effect. The left return has a central sash window, flanked by niches, and a six-pane sash window on an intermediate level, with two blind oculi above. The right return features a sash window with glazing bars, a two-light casement window in an ashlar surround with an overlight, and corniced coping.

Attached at a right angle to the right-hand end of the main block is a short rendered wall leading to an ashlar gate pier, square in plan and with a base, cornice capital, and blocking. Matching gate piers are positioned to the south. The building displays several rainwater heads cast with the date 1842. Historical records suggest that rainwater pipes dated 1662 and 1842 were originally on an east wing of Stanwick Hall, which was demolished. The Clock House’s conversion from stables to housing may have resulted in the rainwater heads being salvaged from the hall and installed on the building.