Lamp post outside Charing Cross Police Station is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 2024. Lamp post.
Lamp post outside Charing Cross Police Station
- WRENN ID
- quartered-lead-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 February 2024
- Type
- Lamp post
- Address
- Lamp post outside Charing Cross Police Station, Chandos Place, London, City of Westminster, WC2N 4JP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 302 806
- Coordinates
- 51.50993, -0.12509
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lamp post outside Charing Cross Police Station is a gas street light from 1910. It features a tapering, fluted cast iron column, known as model 1275 or the 'Eddystone', and an Upright Rochester lantern likely manufactured by Sugg Lighting Limited in the 1980s.
The column has the Westminster City Council crest embossed on one side and the royal cypher G V R along with the date 1910 on the other side. Additional plaques, including an illegible serial number, indicate the column was made by Revo Tipton. The lantern includes a circular, weatherproof chimney above an inverted, six-mantle burner enclosed in teardrop-shaped glass with a drainage hole at the base. The main body of the lantern is supported by a pair of upright arms that extend at right angles from the cast iron control clock box, which is marked with the name SUGG. These arms also support a horizontal enamelled steel reflector that supplies gas to the burner and feature decorative scrollwork.
Local climate
Lamp post outside Charing Cross Police Station 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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