Three Richardson Candle wall-mounted lamps attached to the north side of the Mill Lane Site on Silver Street. is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 April 2013. Lamp.

Three Richardson Candle wall-mounted lamps attached to the north side of the Mill Lane Site on Silver Street.

WRENN ID
roaming-mortar-sable
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 April 2013
Type
Lamp
OS grid reference
TL 447 581
Coordinates
52.20222, 0.11685
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

There are three wall-mounted street lamps known as Richardson Candles located on the north side of the Mill Lane Site on Silver Street. These lamps were designed specifically for Cambridge City by Sir Albert Richardson in 1957 and manufactured by the REVO electrical company. Each lamp features a vertical, tubular lantern made of translucent glass, which houses three or four fluorescent tubes. The lantern is topped and based with simple cast iron, and it is mounted to the wall using a pair of plain metal brackets at each end, with the lower bracket embossed with the word REVO. One lamp is fixed to the north elevation of 21a Silver Street, while the other two are attached to the north elevation of the building marked ‘laboratories’ on the current Ordnance Survey map.

Local climate

Three Richardson Candle wall-mounted lamps attached to the north side of the Mill Lane Site on Silver Street. sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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