Street Lamp Outside 7 The Close is a Grade II listed building in the Castle Point local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1986. Street lamp.
Street Lamp Outside 7 The Close
- WRENN ID
- dim-quoin-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Castle Point
- Constituency
- Castle Point MP: Rebecca Harris (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1986
- Type
- Street lamp
- Address
- Street Lamp Outside 7 The Close, SS7 1NA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 777 860
- Coordinates
- 51.545, 0.56238
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 19th-century gas lamp located outside 7 The Close in South Benfleet. It is made of cast iron and features a fluted stem with a moulded capital and base. The lamp has large lighting handles above the capital and a four-faced design that narrows towards the base, which is supported by incurved brackets. The head of the lamp is hipped and includes acroteria and a ventilator topped with a pointed acorn finial.
Local climate
Street Lamp Outside 7 The Close receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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