Description

ROTHBURY CRAGSIDE LODGE NU 0602 23/280 Clock Tower 110 metres north-east 22.12.81 of Cragside Park House (formerly listed as Clock Tower at Knocklaw) GV II*

Clock Tower, 1864 for Lord Armstrong. Squared tooled stone with raised tooled dressings and clock stage; Welsh slate roof to lower part, timber cupola with lead spire.

South elevation has vertical-panelled door in chamfered pointed arch, other elevations have lead-latticed casements in similar openings, all under gables with cruciform loops. Octagonal clock stage, with 4 clock faces, and cupola with shouldered arches carrying swept spire with weathervane.

Interior; 2 transverse round arches carrying superstructure. Clock mechanism, giving day of week etc, in early cast-iron frame. Bell dated 1864 by John Warner and Son, London (not seen).

The clock tower was the original pay office for the Cragside Estate. The clock mechanism may have been designed by Lord Armstrong.

Listing NGR: NU0699902152

External Links

• Wikidata Q17546976

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