The Clock Turret, About 180 Metres East Of Avishays is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. Clock tower.
The Clock Turret, About 180 Metres East Of Avishays
- WRENN ID
- grim-pedestal-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1987
- Type
- Clock tower
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CHAFFCOMBE CP WHITEMOOR HILL (West side, off) ST30NE 4/10 The Clock Turret about 180 metres east of Avishavs -
GV II
(Monmouth Tower on OS map). Clock tower, also known as The Castle. Probably a C19 folly. Local stone rubble, with some flintwork, Ham stone dressings; lead sheet roofs, bell-hipped. Square plan, single-storey with turret. Plinth, string and battlemented parapet; ogee-curved roof carries a square timber turret, recessed on corners, with similar bell-hip roof topped with a ball finial, housing one bell;clock face an west side of turret: boarded door in simple opening on west side of turret, and 2-light plain-mullioned rectangular-leaded windows on north and south sides having internal vertical iron bars. Inside, a clock mechanism by Gillet and Johnson of Croydon, C20 but date not readable from outside: interior not seen. Of considerable group value in an important C18 estate. (VCH Somerset, Vol IV, 1978, p124).
Listing NGR: ST3539509193
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