Richardson Candle group in Trinity Street including Gonville and Caius College is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 2011. Lamp. 8 related planning applications.
Richardson Candle group in Trinity Street including Gonville and Caius College
- WRENN ID
- ruined-spindle-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 2011
- Type
- Lamp
- Address
- Richardson Candle group in Trinity Street including Gonville and Caius College, Two Richardson Candle Lamp-Posts Outside Gonville and Caius College, Senate House Hill, and Michaelhouse, and Wall-Mounted Lamp Attached to No.S 1 and 6 Trinity Street, CB2 1TA
- OS grid reference
- TL 448 585
- Coordinates
- 52.20607, 0.11814
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Richardson Candle street lamps, located in Trinity Street and designed for Cambridge City by Sir Albert Richardson in 1957, are listed as Grade II. Manufactured by the REVO electrical company, these lamps feature a vertical, tubular lantern made of translucent glass that houses fluorescent tubes. Each lantern is topped and based with simple cast-iron elements and is supported by a slim, fluted column made of bronze-coloured cast-iron. There is also a wall-mounted version that is affixed to buildings with a pair of plain metal brackets at each end, with the lower bracket embossed with the word REVO.
Local climate
Richardson Candle group in Trinity Street including Gonville and Caius College 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Richardson Candle group in St Johns Street and north Trinity Street
- 2 Four Richardson Candles outside no.s 10, 16, 19 and opposite 19 Trumpington Street
- 3 Richardson Candle street lamp on the south-east corner of Silver Street.
- 4 Five wall-mounted Richardson Candles in Kings Parade
- 5 Richardson Candle group at St Catharine's College and northern Trumpington Street
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Gonville and Caius College, The North and East Ranges of Tree Court and South Wall
- Church of St Michael
- 4,5 and 6, Trinity Street
- 38, Trinity Street
- 9, Trinity Street
- 3, Trinity Street
- Gonville and Caius College, J Staircase of St Michaels Court
- 10, Trinity Street
- Gonville and Caius College, North and East Ranges of St Michaels Court, Staircases A-F St Michael's Court, Gonville and Caius College
- The Whim