Five wall-mounted Richardson Candles in Kings Parade is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 2011. Street lamp. 2 related planning applications.
Five wall-mounted Richardson Candles in Kings Parade
- WRENN ID
- solitary-cellar-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 2011
- Type
- Street lamp
- Address
- Five wall-mounted Richardson Candles in Kings Parade, Five Wall-Mounted Richardson Candle Lamps Attached to No.S 1-2, 6, 11, 15 and 20
- OS grid reference
- TL 448 583
- Coordinates
- 52.20448, 0.11774
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Richardson Candles are five wall-mounted street lamps located on King's Parade in Cambridge. Designed by Sir Albert Richardson in 1957 specifically for the city, these lamps were manufactured by the REVO electrical company. Each 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 to the wall using a pair of plain metal brackets at each end. The lower bracket is embossed with the word REVO. One of these lamps is attached to no. 11 King's Parade.
Local climate
Five wall-mounted Richardson Candles in Kings Parade 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 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
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