Clock House

Symmetrical 3-bay frontage with tall central clock tower slightly forward to the street. Painted render with painted stone quoins and grey limestone ashlar ground floor. Six-storey tower with open, circular iron bellframe supported by short iron columns with twisted shafts and florid capitals carrying shallow dome with glazed iron tracery (restored 2004). Clock stage under ashlar Gothic cornice with raised surrounds to clock-faces on 4 main sides and chamfered angles; ashlar moulding over splayed facets to fifth storey (formerly square) with 2-light ashlar louvred S opening with arched lights and Gothic column shaft under curved pediment. Two C18 lead cherubs to outer angles. Original tower has small arched windows to third and fourth stages above raised stone band broken for head of second stage window with C19 cross window with arched heads to two top panes. Finely coursed grey limestone ground floor with wide band over and narrow centre doorway with stone voussoirs. C20 glazed door. Three storey outer wings with slate roofs, paired arched lights to second floor, over first floor splayed oriels of 2-4-2 panes, with modillion cornice and panelled apron (obscuring part of band below). Grey limestone ground floor has restored 3-light shop window close against projecting tower base. Left side has door to left, right side has low former fountain recess (formerly with stone trough), both with stone voussoirs. Left end has short return of the grey limestone, otherwise mostly stuccoed, some rubble stone to first floor left. A stone sill below second floor is below a slightly raised chimney breast (chimneys shown in old photograph). The right end has band carried around, ground floor window, similar stone sill below second floor (chimney shown in old photographs). Blocked opening, possibly former window in ground floor of E wall.

Narrow ground floor interior, modernised in late C20, staircase in left end, c. 1900.