Original Lighting Column, Opposite 3 St Mary's Terrace is a Grade II listed building in the Hastings local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 2002. Lighting column.
Original Lighting Column, Opposite 3 St Mary's Terrace
- WRENN ID
- half-remnant-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hastings
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 2002
- Type
- Lighting column
- OS grid reference
- TQ 821 098
- Coordinates
- 50.85966, 0.5874
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The original lighting column, located opposite 3 St Mary's Terrace, is a gas lighting column that was later converted to electricity. This column is a standard type introduced from the late 1870s for the Hastings and District Gas Lighting Company and is believed to have been erected between 1880 and 1890. Made of cast iron, it stands about 8 feet high and has an octagonal shape with two decorative bands and a moulded plinth that bears the inscription "HASTINGS AND ST. LEONARD'S GAS CO." At the top, there is an enlarged octagonal head that has an early 20th-century electricity switch and timer box fitted to it. Above this head is a swansneck bracket with paterae and a scrolled finial, which currently supports a late 20th-century lantern. This column is one of a series of three identical gas lighting columns in St Mary's Terrace.
Local climate
Original Lighting Column, Opposite 3 St Mary's Terrace receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% 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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