Richardson Candle street lamp on the south-east corner of Silver Street. is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 April 2013. Street lamp.

Richardson Candle street lamp on the south-east corner of Silver Street.

WRENN ID
pale-pavement-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 April 2013
Type
Street lamp
Address
Richardson Candle street lamp on the south-east corner of Silver Street., Richardson Candle Street Lamp Opposite the Pair of K6 Telephone Kiosks on the South-East Corner of Silver Street
OS grid reference
TL 448 581
Coordinates
52.20234, 0.11758
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Richardson Candle street lamp, located on the south-east corner of Silver Street, was designed specifically for Cambridge City by Sir Albert Richardson in 1957 and manufactured by the REVO electrical company. This street lamp features a vertical, tubular lantern made of translucent glass, which houses fluorescent tubes. The lantern is topped and based with simple cast-iron elements and is mounted on a slim, fluted column made of bronze-coloured cast-iron.

The lamp is positioned outside the north elevation of the Grade II listed Pitt Building, which was designed by Edward Blore in 1831, and is directly in front of a pair of Grade II listed K6 telephone kiosks.

Local climate

Richardson Candle street lamp on the south-east corner of 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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