Original Lighting Column Opposite 22 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 22 St Mary's Terrace

WRENN ID
second-entrance-poplar
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 821 099
Coordinates
50.86067, 0.58725
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a gas lighting column that has been later converted to electricity, located opposite 22 St Mary's Terrace. It is of a standard design introduced from the late 1870s for the Hastings and District Gas Lighting Company, and is believed to have been erected between 1880 and 1890. The column is made of cast iron and stands about 8 feet high with an octagonal shape. It features 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 fitted with an early 20th-century electricity switch and timer box. Above this, a swansneck bracket with paterae and a scrolled finial 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 22 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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