[f. CLOCK sb.1 + HOUSE.] A house built for, or having, a public clock; that part of a steeple, etc., in which a clock is set. See JACK of the Clockhouse. Obs.
1622–3. Althorp MS., in Simpkinson, Washingtons, Introd. 42. To Gibson for a new locke for the clockhouse dore.
1563. Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (1869), 114. For mendinge the chymes and the barrelle and jake of the clockehouse.
1656. J. Harrington, Oceana (1771), 112 (Jod.). The great bell in the clockhouse at the Pantheon.
1821. Scott, Kenilw., xii. One of these turrets was square and occupied as a clock-house.
