Lamp Post South of the Tower or Pepper Pot is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1999. Lamp post.

Lamp Post South of the Tower or Pepper Pot

WRENN ID
lone-buttress-dawn
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 post
Address
Lamp Post South of the Tower or Pepper Pot, Tower Road, the City of Brighton and Hove
OS grid reference
TQ 321 047
Coordinates
50.82719, -0.12471
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This lamp post, located south of the Tower on Tower Road in Brighton, dates from the mid to late 19th century. Originally a gas standard, it was adapted for electric light in the late 19th or early 20th century. The post is made of cast iron and another metal, featuring a straight-sided design that resembles a fluted and tapering Tuscan column. It has a single maintenance arm and is topped with a plain cylindrical impost. Above this, there is a timing mechanism marked BLEECO, which serves as a base for a swan-neck tubular bracket, braced by a metal fillet shaped like a tendril. The lamp post also includes a shallow dish reflector.

Local climate

Lamp Post South of the Tower or Pepper Pot 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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