CLOCK TOWER AND ATTACHED WALLS

CLOCK TOWER AND ATTACHED WALLS, MULBERRY DRIVE

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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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Date:: 2001-11-02
Reference:: IOE01/03990/06
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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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)

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Legacy System number:: 119623
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.