Clock Tower, Adamson Square, Creetown is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. 1 related planning application.
Clock Tower, Adamson Square, Creetown
- WRENN ID
- grim-chamber-rye
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- OS grid reference
- NX 475 589
- Coordinates
- 54.90152, -4.37917
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Clock Tower, built around 1897, is a three-stage square tower situated in the centre of Adamson Square, Creetown. Constructed of Creetown granite, it is distinguished by a band course above the first stage. A door is located at ground level, with granite drinking troughs positioned to the north and south, and a bowl to the east. The tall second stage features louvred ventilator openings, flanked by angle pilasters. The third stage contains circular panels displaying Roman numeral clock faces on all four elevations. A crenellated and coped parapet tops the tower, above which a wrought-iron weathervane is secured by bowed wrought-iron ties. A plaque is fixed to the east face. The tower was likely erected to commemorate Queen Victoria's Jubilee. A comparable, more elaborate clock tower, dated 1871, is located in Gatehouse of Fleet and is listed separately.
Local climate
Clock Tower, Adamson Square, Creetown sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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