Gas Lamp Post Outside Number 25 is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. Lamp post.
Gas Lamp Post Outside Number 25
- WRENN ID
- lost-rotunda-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Lamp post
- Address
- Gas Lamp Post Outside Number 25, Millington Road, CB3 9HW
- OS grid reference
- TL 440 572
- Coordinates
- 52.19467, 0.10588
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gas lamp post outside number 25 Millington Road is a Grade II listed street lamp, erected by the Cambridge University and Town Gas Light Company around 1889. Made of cast iron, it features a design inspired by classical columns, with a fluted shaft that stands on a circular base set upon an octagonal plinth. The shaft tapers slightly before widening to form a plain banded capital. Atop the lamp is a simple four-sided lantern made of metal and glass, which is adorned with a spike finial and supported by four curved metal brackets. A ladder-rest extends from the base of the lantern.
Gas was first introduced to Cambridge around 1822 by John Grafton, who initially produced gas from oil for street lighting. He later transitioned to coal production and moved his operations to the riverside for easier coal delivery. The company became the Cambridge Gas-Light Company in 1834 and was renamed the Cambridge University and Town Gas Light Company in 1867. Gas production at the riverside site ended in 1969 with the introduction of North Sea gas. Millington Road was developed on land owned by King's College in 1889 and was supplied with gas by the Cambridge University and Town Gas Light Company shortly thereafter. The gas lamps, including this one, are still in use today.
This gas lamp post is notable for its finely detailed 19th-century design and remains lit by gas. It is part of a group of ten other listed gas lamps of the same design and date along Millington Road and has group value with the Grade II listed modernist house at number 26 Millington Road.
Local climate
Gas Lamp Post Outside Number 25 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:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2009
- No related consent applications matched
- 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.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- 26, Millington Road
- Gas Lamp Post Outside No. 20
- Gas Lamp Post Between Numbers 28 and 30
- Gas lamp post between numbers 33 and 33a, Millington Road
- Gas Lamp Post Beside the Passage to Marlowe Road
- Gas Lamp Outside Nos 12 and 14
- Gas Lamp Post Outside Number 36
- Gas Lamp Post Between Numbers 4 and 5
- Gas Lamp Post Outside Number 7
- Gas Lamp Post Outside Number 4