Description

SJ 65 SW
4/8

ACTON C.P.
DORFOLD PARK

Clock tower building north-west of Dorfold Hall

II

GV

Clock tower with carriage house below, circa 1862. Red brick with
slate roof. 2 storeys and tower, 1 bay. Pair of large six panel
doors, on strap hinges, hung to stone blocks. The doors are
surmounted by a lunette, with keystone, filled with six panels. At
first floor level there is a 2-light, stone dressed, mullion window,
with leaded glazing. Gable roof with stone kneelers supporting a blue
tile gable coping. In the west elevation a small boarded door, in
heavy frame, gives access to the tower. The tower has a weathered
band at ridge level, double stone dressed louvred openings, to each
face, and clock dials, in stone frames, with level sills off consoles
and equilateral stone pediments with pyramid finials. There is a
moulded terracotta corbel table to eaves, a steep roof of shaped
slates and lead hips. The tower has a tall wooden finial with metal
flag and weather-vane.
Interior: First floor and stairs and ladders leading to the clock
mechanism.

Listing NGR: SJ 63538 52521

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q58816587

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)