Cast Iron Lamp Standards in Forecourt of the Royal Mint is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. A C19 Lamp standards. 1 related planning application.

Cast Iron Lamp Standards in Forecourt of the Royal Mint

WRENN ID
gilded-stair-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tower Hamlets
Constituency
Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Lamp standards
Address
Cast Iron Lamp Standards in Forecourt of the Royal Mint, Tower Hill Ec3, EC3N 4QN
OS grid reference
TQ 338 806
Coordinates
51.50909, -0.07271
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The cast iron lamp standards in the forecourt of The Royal Mint date from the 19th century. There are two cast iron lamp standards set on white stone plinths. Each lamp features a circular globe glass lamp held in an iron basket. The listed buildings of The Royal Mint form a group.

Local climate

Cast Iron Lamp Standards in Forecourt of the Royal Mint 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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