Clock Tower
CLOCK TOWER, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1079271
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Clock Tower
- Statutory Address:
- CLOCK TOWER, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1079271
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Clock Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLOCK TOWER, STATION ROAD
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CLOCK TOWER, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Croydon (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ3388868325
History
Some Roman finds have been found within the vicinity of South Norwood and during the Anglo-Saxon period the area was called North Wood. The Parish of Croydon is recorded as Great North Wood within the Domesday book of 1086, when much of the land belonged to the Archbishop of Canterbury. By the mid-C18 much of the wood had been cleared to create heathland and agricultural land, and a small hamlet had appeared. Much of the land was then enclosed under the 1797 Act, in the early C19.
The Croydon Canal was constructed through the wider area between 1802 and 1806 and although it was closed in 1836, its alignment was used by the London & Croydon Railway Company. Norwood Junction station was built in 1859, with Station Road leading up to South Norwood High Street. This prompted the development of South Norwood with shops, Victorian villas and terraced housing.
At the junction of the High Street with Station Road is a small cast-iron clock tower commemorating the golden wedding anniversary of WFR Stanley, in 1907. He was an important local figure and a successful inventor and businessman whose firm in South Norwood made tools and mathematical precision instruments. Stanley designed and built the Stanley Halls, which included a technical trade school, observatory and art gallery.
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 5 March 2024 to amend the description and to add historic background
5009
TQ 36 NW
2/7
STATION ROAD, Norwood
Clock Tower
II
An Ornamental clock tower of cast-iron, on a stone plinth, located within the road. Inscribed on the face: "Erected by the inhabitants of South Norwood to commemorate the Golden Wedding of Mr and Mrs W F Stanley, of Cumberlow, South Norwood, February 22nd 1907".
Listing NGR: TQ3388868325
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 201253
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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