Clock, Tollcross, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 March 2000. Clock.
Clock, Tollcross, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- lone-vestry-sable
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 March 2000
- Type
- Clock
- OS grid reference
- NT 249 729
- Coordinates
- 55.94372, -3.20349
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an early 20th-century two-faced clock located in Tollcross, Edinburgh. It features a metal case with white faces displaying black Roman numerals, made by James Ritchie & Son of Edinburgh. The clock is topped with a painted cast-iron representation of the Edinburgh coat of arms. It is mounted on a tall fluted cast-iron column that has a polygonal base and a floral capital, which was manufactured by W Macfarlane and Co at the Saracen Foundry in Glasgow.
Local climate
Clock, Tollcross, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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