Lamp post outside 8 Mercer Street is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 2024. Lamp post. 15 related planning applications.
Lamp post outside 8 Mercer Street
- WRENN ID
- waning-corner-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 February 2024
- Type
- Lamp post
- Address
- Lamp post outside 8 Mercer Street, London, City of Westminster, WC2H 9QB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 301 809
- Coordinates
- 51.51286, -0.12574
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lamp post outside 8 Mercer Street is a gas street light, likely dating from around 1908. It features a cast iron 'Trafalgar' column topped with a Windsor lantern.
The lamp post has a cast iron column with a tapered, circular pedestal set on a square base. The pedestal includes moulded collars at irregular intervals and has an applied registration plaque with the number 7507. Rising from the pedestal is a fluted 'tulip' shaft that ends in a circular collar, which has a single ladder rest and a four-legged frog that supports the Windsor lantern. The lantern itself is square with tapered glazing panels and a copper casing. Its tent features oak leaf decoration at the corners, along with a spike and cap finial. Inside the lantern, there is a six-mantle burner, an enamel reflector, a Horstmann control clock, and a Comet igniter.
Local climate
Lamp post outside 8 Mercer 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 15 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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