Lamp post outside 26 Maunsel 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 26 Maunsel Street
- WRENN ID
- lunar-jade-quill
- 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 26 Maunsel Street, London, City of Westminster, SW1P 2QN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 296 789
- Coordinates
- 51.49446, -0.13315
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lamp post outside 26 Maunsel Street is a gas street light featuring an Eddystone column that dates back to 1910, topped with a Grosvenor-type lantern likely from the early to mid-20th century.
The lamp post is made of cast iron, and the lantern is constructed from iron, spun copper, and enamelled steel, with a decorative fret around the top that is probably made of cast lead. The column is tapering and fluted, with one ladder rest. On one side of the base, the Westminster City Council crest is embossed, while the opposite side displays the royal cypher G V R along with the date 1910.
The lantern itself is circular, featuring tapered and curved glazing panels held by metal glazing bars. It is topped with a decorative, perforated fret and an ogee finial. Inside the lantern, there is a six-mantle inverted burner, a Horstmann 14 day clockwork time controller, and a steel reflector. The lantern is mounted on a three-legged frog that is attached to the collar of the column.
Local climate
Lamp post outside 26 Maunsel 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
- No related consent applications matched
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