Three Richardson Candle wall-mounted lamps attached to the south side of Queens’ College, Silver Street. is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 April 2013. Lamp. 4 related planning applications.

Three Richardson Candle wall-mounted lamps attached to the south side of Queens’ College, Silver Street.

WRENN ID
sombre-foundation-swallow
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 446 580
Coordinates
52.20211, 0.11576
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The three Richardson Candle wall-mounted lamps are located on the south side of Queens’ College 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 elements and 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 affixed to the south elevation of the 15th-century south range of Queens’ College, which is a Grade I listed building. The other two lamps are attached to the south elevation of a white brick building designed by James Essex between 1756 and 1760, located at the south-west corner of the College.

Local climate

Three Richardson Candle wall-mounted lamps attached to the south side of Queens’ College, 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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