The Clock Shop, 47 Main Street, Thornton is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1996. Shop.
The Clock Shop, 47 Main Street, Thornton
- WRENN ID
- rooted-lintel-cedar
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1996
- Type
- Shop
- OS grid reference
- NT 289 976
- Coordinates
- 56.16622, -3.14643
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Clock Shop, located at 47 Main Street in Thornton, was built in 1897 by Mr. Wood. This single-storey shop features a piend roof and is situated on a corner site, completing an irregular terrace. The most prominent feature is the timber clock tower.
The clock tower is two stages high, designed in black and white, with a raked slate plinth that extends over the lower roof pitch to the east. It has timber dividing courses and corner strips. The first stage of the tower has a clock on each face, while the second stage is louvred and topped with a timber gablet that also features finials on each side.
On the entrance elevation, there is a two-leaf timber door set in a gabled, finialled doorway positioned to the right, which has a chamfered corner. A projecting rectangular display window with a finialled gablehead is also present. The shop's windows have a six-pane glazing pattern above plate glass in fixed timber frames. The roof is covered with grey slates, and it has overhanging eaves, decorative terracotta ridge tiles, and finials.
Inside, the inner door is glazed with decorative astragals and features a plate glass fanlight.
Local climate
The Clock Shop, 47 Main Street, Thornton receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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