Lamp post opposite 7 Cowley 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 opposite 7 Cowley Street
- WRENN ID
- high-zinc-ash
- 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 7 Cowley Street, London, City of Westminster, SW1P 3NB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 301 792
- Coordinates
- 51.49716, -0.12709
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lamp post opposite 7 Cowley Street is a gas street light dating from 1910, featuring an Eddystone column and a Rochester-type lantern likely installed around 1930.
It is made of cast iron with a glazed lantern constructed from iron, spun copper, and enamelled steel. The lamp post has a tapering, fluted Eddystone column topped with an upright Rochester lantern. The base of the column displays the Westminster City Council crest on one side and the royal cypher G V R along with the date 1910 on the other side. Additionally, there is a plaque indicating the column manufacturer, Revo Tipton.
The lantern includes a circular drum and rain-shield made of copper, positioned above an inverted, six-mantle burner encased in a teardrop-shaped glass enclosure that has a drainage hole at its base, along with an enamelled steel reflector. This entire assembly is held in place by an iron cradle with two curved uprights extending from the clock box, although these uprights have lost their original decorative ironwork scrolls, which were typical of interwar Rochester lanterns.
Local climate
Lamp post opposite 7 Cowley 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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