Clock Tower, The Square, Dufftown is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Clock tower. 3 related planning applications.

Clock Tower, The Square, Dufftown

WRENN ID
dim-spire-snow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 February 1972
Type
Clock tower
Address
Clock Tower, The Square, Dufftown, AB55 4AD
OS grid reference
NJ 323 399
Coordinates
57.44483, -3.12838
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Clock Tower in The Square, Dufftown, is believed to have been built in 1839. It is a three-stage square clock tower featuring a high crenellated wallhead with decorative dummy angle bartizans and a clock on each face. The structure is constructed of mixed grey granite rubble with tooled pink granite dressings. There is a central door on the south elevation and a corniced entrance on the west. Each elevation has windows on every floor, some of which are blank, with 12-pane glazing and band courses that define the floors. There are also occasional mock circular gun loops. A bellcote rises above the wallhead, topped with a leaded ogee roof, a ball finial, and a weathervane. Additionally, there is a single-storey extension made of pink granite that was added in 1925, projecting to the north.

Local climate

Clock Tower, The Square, Dufftown 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 71 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 54 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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