Lamp post outside 11 Gayfere Street is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 2024. Lamp post.
Lamp post outside 11 Gayfere Street
- WRENN ID
- long-porch-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 2024
- Type
- Lamp post
- Address
- Lamp post outside 11 Gayfere Street, London, City of Westminster, SW1P 3HP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 300 791
- Coordinates
- 51.49648, -0.12774
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lamp post outside 11 Gayfere Street is a gas street light dating from the 1830s, featuring a later extension shaft and a Rochester-type lantern likely installed around 1930. It is made of cast iron, with a glazed lantern constructed from iron, spun copper, and enamelled steel.
The lamp post has a tapering fluted column topped with an extension shaft and an upright Rochester lantern. The base is tapered square with horizontal reeding, displaying an oval plaque numbered 6565 on one side and the Westminster City Council crest on the other. Below this, there is an additional plaque indicating the manufacturer, T Edge. The lantern includes a circular drum and rain-shield made of copper, positioned above an inverted six-mantle burner encased in teardrop-shaped glass, which has a drainage hole at its base and is complemented by an enamelled steel reflector. This entire assembly is held in place by an iron cradle with two curved uprights extending from the clock box, which retain much of their original decorative ironwork scrolls typical of inter-war Rochester lanterns.
Local climate
Lamp post outside 11 Gayfere 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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