Gas lighting column at the top of steps to the north-west of No. 6 Exmouth Place is a Grade II listed building in the Hastings local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 2002. Lighting column. 1 related planning application.
Gas lighting column at the top of steps to the north-west of No. 6 Exmouth Place
- WRENN ID
- quartered-rubblework-amber
- 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
- Address
- Gas lighting column at the top of steps to the north-west of No. 6 Exmouth Place, TN34 3JA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 823 096
- Coordinates
- 50.85718, 0.58921
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a gas lighting column, later converted to electricity, located at the top of the steps to the north-west of No. 6 Exmouth Place. It dates from the later 19th century and was originally part of the Hastings and District Gas Lighting Company.
The column is made of cast iron and features a tapering fluted design, standing about 2.5 meters high. It has two decorative bands, a tulip-shaped top, and a moulded octagonal base. At the top, there is a replacement bracket that supports a late 20th-century electric light.
Local climate
Gas lighting column at the top of steps to the north-west of No. 6 Exmouth Place 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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