Sixteen Lamp Posts East of the Station of Volks Electric Railway (Not Included) is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1999. Lamp posts. 1 related planning application.

Sixteen Lamp Posts East of the Station of Volks Electric Railway (Not Included)

WRENN ID
riven-wicket-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brighton and Hove
Constituency
Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven MP: Chris Ward (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 August 1999
Type
Lamp posts
Address
Sixteen Lamp Posts East of the Station of Volks Electric Railway (Not Included), Madeira Drive, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN2 1EN
OS grid reference
TQ 317 038
Coordinates
50.8188, -0.13131
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sixteen street lamps located east of the station of the Volks Electric Railway, dating from around 1893. These lamps are made of cast iron and feature an octagonal base. The column has a swelling base decorated with foliage ornament, while the lower quarter of the column is plain, and the upper part is fluted and ridged. Each lamp has two short maintenance arms and a palm-leaf capital that supports two curved brackets, from which hang spiked octagonal lanterns. Between the brackets, there is openwork foliage ornament topped with the municipal coat of arms.

Local climate

Sixteen Lamp Posts East of the Station of Volks Electric Railway (Not Included) receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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