Clock Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 July 1995. Tower.
Clock Tower
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1995
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Clock Tower, Rhayader
- OS grid reference
- SN 971 680
- Coordinates
- 52.30051, -3.51032
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Clock Tower is a Grade II listed structure designed in a free classical style. It has a square plan and is primarily constructed of bathstone, featuring grey-brown stone walls and a dark stone plinth. The tower is topped with a pavilion roof that includes small gothic-arched louvres and a cross.
The upper section of the tower tapers and is adorned with bathstone quoins and a cornice, with a clock displayed on each face. The lower part features engaged Doric columns at the corners and open pediments that contain figures supported on cornices above inscribed panels. These panels commemorate the names of those who fell in the two World Wars. The figures include a soldier on the west side, winged female figures that may represent Peace, and a Welsh Dragon defeating a German Eagle on the east side.
Local climate
Clock Tower sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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