Clock Tower West of Ash Hill House
CLOCK TOWER WEST OF ASH HILL HOUSE, ASH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387408
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Clock Tower West of Ash Hill House
- Statutory Address:
- CLOCK TOWER WEST OF ASH HILL HOUSE, ASH HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387408
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Clock Tower West of Ash Hill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLOCK TOWER WEST OF ASH HILL HOUSE, ASH HILL
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:
- CLOCK TOWER WEST OF ASH HILL HOUSE, ASH HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Wolverhampton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 88654 98400
Details
SO 89 NE ASH HILL
Compton
895-1/4/10032 Clock Tower west of
Ash Hill House
II
Memorial clock tower. 1926, for Davis Green. Timber-framed with plastered panels. Stone tile roofs. Square plan tower in three stages, the lower stage has octagonal plan loggia with carved brackets to the posts which rise through the pentice roof to form pinnacles above; pinnacles also at the corners of the second stage which is close-studded, has cusped headed windows and wrought-iron clock face on east side; belfry above with pyramidal roof with gablets and weathervane, and with four bells. Under the loggia there are benches with carved strapwork panels above , inscribed with the verses from Annie Hilda Green's poem The Silverdale Clock Chimes' NOTE: This tower was built in the garden of Ash Hill House for Davis Green [a local industrialist] as a memorial to his first wife Annie Hilda Green who died in 1926. The inscriptions are verses from her poem The Silverdale Clock Chimes'.
Listing NGR: SO8865498400
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475369
- 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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