Three Richardson Candle wall-mounted lamps attached to the north side of Bene’t Street. is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 April 2013. Street lamp.
Three Richardson Candle wall-mounted lamps attached to the north side of Bene’t Street.
- WRENN ID
- fallow-floor-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 April 2013
- Type
- Street lamp
- Address
- Three Richardson Candle wall-mounted lamps attached to the north side of Bene’t Street., CB2 3QN
- OS grid reference
- TL 448 583
- Coordinates
- 52.20399, 0.11823
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Three wall-mounted street lamps known as Richardson Candles are attached to the north side of Bene’t 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 holds 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. The lamps are affixed to the buildings numbered 2, 6-8, and 9 Bene’t Street, all of which date to the early 19th century and are listed at Grade II.
Local climate
Three Richardson Candle wall-mounted lamps attached to the north side of Bene’t 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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