Lamp post outside Romney House East 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 Romney House East
- WRENN ID
- crooked-baluster-bistre
- 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 Romney House East, Tufton Street, London, City of Westminster, SW1P 3AF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 300 790
- Coordinates
- 51.49555, -0.12827
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lamp post outside Romney House East is a gas street light, likely made around 1930, featuring a Rochester-type lantern manufactured by William Sugg and Company.
The lamp post is made of cast iron and includes a glazed lantern constructed from iron, spun copper, and enamelled steel. It has a column adorned with acanthus leaves at the base and floral mouldings, topped with a short extension shaft and an Upright Rochester lantern. The tapered squared base of the column has an oval plaque with the number 6503 on one side, and possibly the manufacturer's name, which is illegible, on the other.
The lantern itself has a circular drum and rain-shield made of copper, positioned above an inverted, six-mantle burner housed in a teardrop-shaped glass enclosure that features a drainage hole at its base. An enamelled steel reflector, marked with the label ‘SUGG’, is part of this assembly, which is suspended in an iron cradle supported by two curved uprights that extend from the clock box. These uprights are decorated with ironwork scrolls, a characteristic feature of inter-war Rochester lanterns.
Local climate
Lamp post outside Romney House East 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 — 3 transactions since 2016
- No related consent applications matched
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