Lamp Posts on the Esplanade Twenty Eight Lamp Posts 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 Posts on the Esplanade Twenty Eight Lamp Posts
- WRENN ID
- crooked-clay-wax
- 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 Posts on the Esplanade Twenty Eight Lamp Posts, Marine Parade, the City of Brighton and Hove
- OS grid reference
- TQ 314 039
- Coordinates
- 50.81976, -0.135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The twenty-eight lamp posts on the Esplanade in Brighton, located between the Aquarium and Lewes Crescent, are notable cast-iron structures dating from 1893. The original brackets and lamps were made of copper and brass and installed in the 1930s, but these were replaced by angled lights in 1980. In 1982, fibreglass replicas of the 1930s design were installed. Each lamp post features an octagonal base that narrows towards the top, with sloping sides adorned with foliage ornamentation. Above this is a knop with nailhead decoration, followed by a baluster form embellished with acanthus leaves. The column itself has diagonal foliage sprays on its lower quarter, with ribbing extending up to two short maintenance arms. Above these arms is a spreading basket capital. The posts are fitted with two curved brackets, which support two octagonal spiked lanterns and are filled with openwork ornament, surmounted by the borough's arms.
Local climate
Lamp Posts on the Esplanade Twenty Eight Lamp Posts 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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