Clock House

Clock House is a symmetrical building featuring a three-bay frontage and a tall central clock tower that projects slightly towards the street. The exterior is finished in painted render with painted stone quoins and a grey limestone ashlar ground floor. The six-storey tower has an open, circular iron bellframe supported by short iron columns with twisted shafts and ornate capitals, topped with a shallow dome that has glazed iron tracery, which was restored in 2004. The clock stage is set beneath an ashlar Gothic cornice, with raised surrounds for the clock faces on all four main sides and chamfered angles. The fifth storey, which was originally square, features ashlar moulding over splayed facets and a 2-light ashlar louvred opening with arched lights and a Gothic column shaft beneath a curved pediment. Two 18th-century lead cherubs are positioned at the outer angles of the tower.

The original tower includes small arched windows on the third and fourth stages, with a raised stone band interrupting the second stage window, which has a 19th-century cross window with arched heads on the top two panes. The finely coursed grey limestone ground floor has a wide band above and a narrow central doorway with stone voussoirs, leading to a 20th-century glazed door.

The building has three-storey outer wings with slate roofs. The second floor features paired arched lights above first-floor splayed oriels with 2-4-2 panes, all topped with a modillion cornice and a panelled apron that obscures part of the band below. The grey limestone ground floor has a restored three-light shop window positioned close to the projecting base of the tower. The left side has a door on the left, while the right side contains a low former fountain recess that once held a stone trough, both with stone voussoirs. The left end has a short return of grey limestone, while the rest is mostly stuccoed, with some rubble stone on the first floor to the left. A stone sill below the second floor is situated beneath a slightly raised chimney breast, with chimneys visible in old photographs. The right end features a band that wraps around, a ground floor window, and a similar stone sill below the second floor, with a blocked opening that may have been a former window in the ground floor of the east wall.

The narrow ground floor interior has been modernised in the late 20th century, with a staircase located at the left end, dating from around 1900.