Street Lamp on West Side of Avenham Walk Approximately 75 Metres South of Avenham Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. Street lamp.
Street Lamp on West Side of Avenham Walk Approximately 75 Metres South of Avenham Lane
- WRENN ID
- unlit-stair-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Street lamp
- OS grid reference
- SD 540 288
- Coordinates
- 53.75377, -2.69776
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a street lamp standard located on the west side of Avenham Walk, approximately 75 meters south of Avenham Lane in Preston. It is likely from the mid-19th century and has been altered. The lamp is made of cast iron and features a square pedestal with shouldered panels, a fluted shaft adorned with acanthus leaf decoration at the base, two intermediate rings, and a gadrooned cap. A replacement lantern was being fitted at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Street Lamp on West Side of Avenham Walk Approximately 75 Metres South of Avenham Lane sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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