Lamp post outside 11-14 Hanover Place is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 2024.
Lamp post outside 11-14 Hanover Place
- WRENN ID
- sacred-spindle-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 2024
- Address
- Lamp post outside 11-14 Hanover Place, London, City of Westminster, WC2E 9JP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 303 810
- Coordinates
- 51.51337, -0.12324
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lamp post outside numbers 11-14 Hanover Place is a gas lamp post made of cast iron, likely from the early 20th century. It features a central, ornate column that stands approximately three meters tall, with decorative acanthus leaf motifs at both the top and bottom. The column has a slightly tapered, octagonal shape and rises from a large square pedestal with chamfered corners, which includes an applied registration plaque marked with the number 7522.
Atop the column, a three-legged frog supports a Grosvenor lantern. This lantern is circular in shape, with tapered and curved glazing panels held by metal glazing bars. It is finished with a decorative, perforated fret and an ogee finial at the top. Inside the lantern, there is a four-mantle burner, an enamel reflector, a Horstmann 14-day control clock, and a Comet igniter. The lamp post is centrally located in Hanover Place, directly in front of the specified buildings.
Local climate
Lamp post outside 11-14 Hanover Place 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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