Column and Street Light, Left of Entrance to Town Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. Street furniture.
Column and Street Light, Left of Entrance to Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- rough-rampart-reed
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Street furniture
- Address
- Column and Street Light, Left of Entrance to Town Hall, High Street
- OS grid reference
- TL 995 252
- Coordinates
- 51.88974, 0.89897
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The column and street light, located to the left of the entrance to the Town Hall on High Street, was built around 1898 and designed by architect John Belcher, who also designed the Town Hall. It features a Portland stone lantern column that is unfluted and has a stylized composite design with an octagonal base. The column is topped with metal lanterns that have domical tops. Surrounding the shaft are three bronze plaques, each displaying the Borough Arms.
Local climate
Column and Street Light, Left of Entrance to Town Hall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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