Webb Clock Tower, Neillsbrook Road, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Antrim and Newtownabbey local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.

Webb Clock Tower, Neillsbrook Road, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim

WRENN ID
ghost-hall-candle
Grade
Record Only
Local Planning Authority
Antrim and Newtownabbey
Constituency
South Antrim MP: Robin Swann (UUP)
Country
Northern Ireland
Address
Webb Clock Tower, Neillsbrook Road, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim, Feehogue
Irish grid reference
J 081 907
Coordinates
54.75269, -6.32137
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

A two-stage, square-plan masonry tower built in 1952 in the Italianate style. The eastern face features a rusticated semi-circular arched doorway with a rectangular flush door, and similar blind recesses on the other three faces. The exterior walls are finished with roughcast render, with smooth rendered quoins and voussoirs. Above a cornice sits a roughcast rendered belfry storey with rectangular louvred openings and a shallow-pitch pyramidal roof covered in red pantiled tiles, surmounted by an iron weathervane. Modern PVC guttering and downpipes are visible, returning into the belfry storey. The clock face has been removed.

The tower was built as a memorial to William Hubert Webb, an active member and Director/Chairman of the Old Bleach Linen Company from 1888 until his death in 1950. It was constructed on behalf of the company’s employees and opened on 10 September 1952.

The tower stands on a low podium of two concrete steps within a small grassed area, situated beside Neillsbrook Road. Housing is opposite, and sports and leisure facilities lie behind.

Local climate

Webb Clock Tower, Neillsbrook Road, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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