Clock Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 August 1988. Clock tower.
Clock Tower
- WRENN ID
- drifting-spandrel-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1988
- Type
- Clock tower
- Address
- Clock Tower, Bangor
- OS grid reference
- SH 582 721
- Coordinates
- 53.22738, -4.12481
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Clock Tower is a square red brick structure featuring a plinth and freestone dressings, including surrounds for the clock faces above a dentil cornice. It has a timber octagonal cupola with two stages and a weathervane. The clock faces are adorned with bracketed round arched hoods that have reed and bobbin borders. The corners of the tower are rounded and supported by projecting pilaster buttresses. There are steps leading up to a square-headed entrance on the northwest side, which has a lintel and a modern multipanelled door. Above the entrance is a slate tablet inscribed in both languages, referencing the restoration that took place in 1986. The tower also features slit windows with handmade brick stepped voussoirs. On the southeast side, there is another tablet, inscribed similarly, set within a Baroque frame that includes a volute bracketed pediment, enriched pilasters, and a scalloped base, with a ‘TL’ monogram on the keystone.
Local climate
Clock Tower sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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