Lamp post adjacent to 48 Tufton 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 adjacent to 48 Tufton Street
- WRENN ID
- vacant-floor-hawthorn
- 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 adjacent to 48 Tufton Street, SW1P 3DW
- OS grid reference
- TQ 300 791
- Coordinates
- 51.49634, -0.12847
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lamp post adjacent to 48 Tufton Street is a gas street light from the 1830s, featuring a Rochester-type lantern likely made by William Sugg and Company around 1930.
The lamp post is made of cast iron and includes a glazed lantern constructed from iron, spun copper, and enamelled steel. It has a tapering column topped with an extension shaft and an upright Rochester lantern. The base is tapered square with horizontal reeding and displays an oval plaque numbered 6506 on one side, while the other side features the letters St I E W. Below this, there is an additional plaque indicating the manufacturer of the column: PEARSE.
The lantern itself consists of a circular drum and rain-shield made of copper, positioned above an inverted, six-mantle burner housed in a teardrop-shaped glass enclosure that includes a drainage hole at its base. It also has an enamelled steel reflector marked with the lettering ‘SUGG GAS LAMP’. Additionally, there is a hexagonal metal extension that serves as a light reflector. This entire assembly is held in place by an iron cradle with two curved uprights extending from the clock box, which still retain some original decorative ironwork scrolls typical of inter-war Rochester lanterns.
Local climate
Lamp post adjacent to 48 Tufton 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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