Building record 0150800000 - THE CLOCK HOUSE, PARK ROAD

(History & original site CASS 01507).
Hospital built by Thomas Penn in 1765. An unusually composite group in red brick, to the right the dwellings of the three poor men and the three poor women, wings at the back, a clock-tower on the S front. Then to the left, attached to the dwellings, the Masters House, ie the vicarage, as the vicar was master. It is of five bays and two storeys. To its left, finally, the small chapel with a S window with Y-tracery (B1-2).
Grade II. Built 1765 for Thomas Penn of Stoke Park with a chapel on the left and an adjoining L-shaped building on the right and almshouse for 3 men and 3 women. Red brick; old tile roof. From left to right. First, the single-storeyed and gabled former chapel. Pointed Gothick window with Y-tracery and leaded lights. Then, the Master's House, that is, the vicarage that was replaced in 1802 by James Wyatt's (see item 13/613), since the vicar of Stoke Poges was also master of the almshouses. Two storeys; 5 bays. Ground floor with central arched entrance. All windows segment-headed sashes with glazing bars, those of the 1st floor smaller than those of the ground floor. Then the former almshouses proper, a 5-bay block with French window on the left and segment-headed casement windows, a 2-storeyed clock-tower with wooden cupola astride the gable and another 2-storeyed single bay with segment-headed casement windows. Walled gardens back and front. Square brick piers surmounted by balls and wrought iron gates (B3).
'Almshouses' marked at NGR (B4).