Lamp post opposite the Strand Palace Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 2024. Lamp post.
Lamp post opposite the Strand Palace Hotel
- WRENN ID
- woven-mantel-fog
- 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 opposite the Strand Palace Hotel, Exeter Street, London, City of Westminster, WC2E 7DS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 304 807
- Coordinates
- 51.51093, -0.12146
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lamp post opposite the Strand Palace Hotel is a gas street light from 1910, featuring an upright Rochester lantern made by William Sugg and Company Limited, likely around 1930.
This lamp post is made of cast iron and has a glazed lantern constructed from iron, spun copper, and enamelled steel. The column is tapering and fluted, identified as model 1275 in the William Sugg catalogue, known as the 'Eddystone', topped with an upright Rochester lantern. The base of the column displays the Westminster City Council crest on one side and the manufacturer's name, SUGG. On the opposite side, there is the royal monogram G V R along with the date 1910.
The lantern features a circular, weatherproof chimney above an inverted, six-mantle burner enclosed in a 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, leading to a horizontal enamelled steel reflector that supplies gas to the burner. These arms retain their original decorative ironwork scrolls, characteristic of interwar Rochester lanterns.
Local climate
Lamp post opposite the Strand Palace Hotel 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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