Richardson Candle group in Trumpington Street including the Fitzwilliam Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 2011. A 20th century Street lamp.
Richardson Candle group in Trumpington Street including the Fitzwilliam Museum
- WRENN ID
- sheer-nave-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 2011
- Type
- Street lamp
- Address
- Richardson Candle group in Trumpington Street including the Fitzwilliam Museum, CB2 1RW
- OS grid reference
- TL 448 580
- Coordinates
- 52.20169, 0.11832
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Richardson Candle group in Trumpington Street includes street lamps designed exclusively for Cambridge City by Sir Albert Richardson in 1957 and manufactured by the REVO electrical company.
The street lamp features a vertical, tubular lantern made of translucent glass that houses fluorescent tubes. It has a simple cast-iron capping and base, and is mounted on a slim, fluted column made of bronze-coloured cast-iron. The wall-mounted version is fixed to the building with a pair of plain metal brackets at each end, with the lower bracket embossed with the word REVO.
Within this group, there are two lamp posts located on the pavement in front of the Pitt Building, one at the corner of Trumpington Street and Little St Mary's Lane, and one in front of the Fitzwilliam Museum, which is opposite 37 Trumpington Street. Additionally, there is a wall-mounted lamp attached to the Grade II listed building at 71-72 Trumpington Street, completing the group.
Local climate
Richardson Candle group in Trumpington Street including the Fitzwilliam Museum 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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