Lamp Post on Corner of Gordon Square and Gordon Street is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1981. Lamp post.

Lamp Post on Corner of Gordon Square and Gordon Street

WRENN ID
knotted-quoin-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Camden
Constituency
Holborn and St Pancras
Country
England
Date first listed
4 August 1981
Type
Lamp post
Address
Lamp Post on Corner of Gordon Square and Gordon Street, WC1H 0PP
OS grid reference
TQ 296 822
Coordinates
51.5247, -0.13189
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This lamp post, located at the corner of Gordon Square and Gordon Street, dates from the 1890s and was cast by McDowell, Steven and Co in Glasgow and London. It is made of cast iron and features a base decorated with acanthus leaves. The door, which is currently missing, originally displayed the name "St Pancras." The lamp post has a tall, plain shaft with a decorated band and retains the original cradle type fitting for a carbon arc lamp, although it has been converted to accommodate an incandescent lamp and has been out of use since 1976. This lamp post is historically significant as it is the last remaining example of this type from the pioneering authority in electric street lighting in London, established in 1892.

Local climate

Lamp Post on Corner of Gordon Square and Gordon 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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