Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
8989
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
30/09/1985  
Date of Amendment
30/09/1985  
Name of Property
Clock Tower  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Knighton  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
328576  
Northing
272329  
Street Side
 
Location
Occupying prominent island site in centre of town at junction of Broad/West and High Streets.  

Description


Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces  
Period
 

History
Dated 1872: By Haddon Brothers, Architects of Hereford.  

Exterior
High Victorian Gothic (influence of Burges), grey rubble facings with pale freestone dressings, slate roofs (cf Hay-on-Wye clock tower). Tall square tower with chamfered angles on stone plinth set in slope. Pyramidal roof in 2 stages with open bell stage between, weathervane on top, lucarnes to each face. Moulded eaves with machicolations, round clock face recessed in pointed arched frame. Brace plates, linked hoodmoulds and continuous stringcourse. Scalloped corbels to angles with 3 trefoils between. 2 arrow slits to each face. Heraldic band with set offs below and diagonal buttresses with punched trefoil cappings. Arched openings between, buttresses with hood mouldings and nook shafts - 1 blind and 2 traceried windows, 1 double cusped arch to entrance with boarded door. Tablet and inscription at base of Clock Tower reads:- "This Tower and Clock was presented to the Town of Knighton by the late Thomas Moore Esq of Old Hall AD 1872/"Bezant - Clockmaker, Hereford/ Welsh and Son - Contractor, Hereford/Haddon - Architect, Hereford"  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Group value  

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