Lamp post on corner of 81 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 on corner of 81 Tufton Street
- WRENN ID
- floating-cloister-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 on corner of 81 Tufton Street, London, City of Westminster, SW1P 3QX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 300 790
- Coordinates
- 51.49526, -0.1281
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lamp post located at the corner of 81 Tufton Street is a gas street light featuring an Eddystone column, which dates back to 1910, and a Rochester-type lantern manufactured by William Sugg and Company, likely around 1930.
The lamp post is made of cast iron and is topped with a glazed lantern constructed from iron, spun copper, and enamelled steel. It has a tapering, fluted Eddystone column that is adorned with the Westminster City Council crest on one side. On another side, it displays the royal cypher G V R along with the date 1910, and on a different side, there is an oval plaque numbered 7013. Below this, an additional plaque indicates the manufacturer of the column: Revo Tipton.
The lantern features a circular drum and a wide rain-shield made of copper, positioned above an inverted, six-mantle burner encased in teardrop-shaped glass with a drainage hole at the base. An enamelled steel reflector, marked with the lettering ‘SUGG’, is part of the assembly, which is suspended in an iron cradle supported by two curved uprights extending from the clock box. These uprights retain much of their original decorative ironwork scrolls, characteristic of inter-war Rochester lanterns.
Local climate
Lamp post on corner of 81 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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