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

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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.

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