Lamp Standard (West End of Chelsea Embankment Gardens) is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1969. Lamp standard.
Lamp Standard (West End of Chelsea Embankment Gardens)
- WRENN ID
- cold-pewter-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Chelsea and Fulham MP: Ben Coleman (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 April 1969
- Type
- Lamp standard
- Address
- Lamp Standard (West End of Chelsea Embankment Gardens), Chelsea Embankment Sw3
- OS grid reference
- TQ 271 775
- Coordinates
- 51.48277, -0.17097
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an iron lamp standard located at the west end of Chelsea Embankment Gardens, dating from 1874. It features an ornate twisted column design adorned with climbing figures and cornucopiae, all standing on a plain granite pedestal. The pedestal includes an inscription that commemorates the opening of Chelsea Embankment. The lamp standard was cast at Coalbrookdale.
Local climate
Lamp Standard (West End of Chelsea Embankment Gardens) sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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