The oak mounting bracket is modern. The single hand, virtually standard for lantern clocks, appears to be original. The anchor recoil escapement with long pendulum is original, not a later conversion from crown wheel and verge. Wheel work is nicely decorated and finished, actually rather better than provincial work usually is, and the arbors are straight rather than tapered as in earlier clocks. Hourly striking is by count wheel, with the watch train directly in front of the striking train.
Rope drive is used with a lead weight.
Baillie lists John Boreham as having been apprenticed in London in 1750, and Loomes lists him as known in Shimpling, Suffolk, from about 1769 until his death in 1777.