Clock Tower and Attached Walls
CLOCK TOWER AND ATTACHED WALLS, MULBERRY DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111651
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Clock Tower and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address:
- CLOCK TOWER AND ATTACHED WALLS, MULBERRY DRIVE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111651
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Apr-2009
- List Entry Name:
- Clock Tower and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLOCK TOWER AND ATTACHED WALLS, MULBERRY DRIVE
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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 AND ATTACHED WALLS, MULBERRY DRIVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Thurrock (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 54990 78552
Details
977/9/8 MULBERRY DRIVE 10-NOV-81 PURFLEET (West side) Clock Tower and attached walls (Formerly listed as: CENTURION WAY PURFLEET Clock Tower)
II Gateway and attached walls. c1760s, to the designs of James Gabriel Montresor, Royal Engineer. Flemish bond brown brick with slate roof. Lower stage with segmental-headed arch in each face, with stone keys and impost courses; deep stone band over with square panelled brick stage above. Roof surmounted by square pedimented stage, with circular clock faces. Square bell turret over with square dome and weathervane. A short (approx. 1.5m) section of the boundary wall has survived attached to the NE, the tall wall attached to the SW extending towards Centurion Way and comprising the former southern boundary of the magazine enclosure. Associated with the magazines built by Montresor, No. 5 Powder Magazine and the proof house (qqv) surviving from the powder depot at Purfleet.
This gateway and attached walls forms an integral part of the finest ensemble in any of the Ordnance Yards, consistent with the high standards practised by the Ordnance Board in its designs for fortifications and barracks from the C17.
(Report by Paul Pattison and Peter Guillery for RCHME, 1994, NMR, Swindon (NBR Index No. 93577); Paul Pattison and Peter Guillery, 'The Powder Magazines at Purfleet', in Georgian Group Journal, VI, 1996, pp.37-52)
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 119623
- 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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