The Clocktower
The Clocktower, Station Approach, Maidenhead
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319375
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Clocktower
- Statutory Address:
- The Clocktower, Station Approach, Maidenhead
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319375
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Clocktower
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Clocktower, Station Approach, Maidenhead
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.
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:
- The Clocktower, Station Approach, Maidenhead
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU8880080791
Details
SU 88 SE
1/50
STATION APPROACH (east end)
The Clocktower
II
1897, by E.J. Shrewsbury brick with Bath stone dressings, square plan with square projections on angle at each corner. Stone crenellated parapet, stone "pepper pots" on each corner, whole surmounted by timber framed cupola containing bell, with octagonal copper domed roof and ornate iron finial. Cornice below parapet with mythical beasts at each corner. Clock face in stone surround with quatrefoil ornament on each side gothic stone arcading below and stone string above single Lancet window with shallow cusped head.
Base with stone plinth and two-centred arched opening beneath ogee drip mould, tracery in spandrels. One side has entrance door, the other drinking fountain, one window and one commemorative stone plaque to Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee 1897.
Listing NGR: SU8880080791
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 40763
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 174
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 04/02/2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
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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