Clock Tower, High Street, Gatehouse Of Fleet is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Clocktower.

Clock Tower, High Street, Gatehouse Of Fleet

WRENN ID
winter-jade-willow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 November 1971
Type
Clocktower
Address
Clock Tower, High Street, Gatehouse Of Fleet, DG7 2HY
OS grid reference
NX 601 564
Coordinates
54.88321, -4.18146
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Clock Tower in Gatehouse of Fleet was built in 1871 and stands 75 feet high with a tall, decorative square plan. It is constructed from squared rubble craigniter granite, featuring dressed quoins and bands of granite at the top stage. At the base, there is a door, and above it are slit windows. The top stage is banded with granite and has clock faces on each side. Above this, there is an open stage supported by granite columns, which hold up a corbelled decorative parapet.

Local climate

Clock Tower, High Street, Gatehouse Of Fleet sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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